A HOLY WAR.
THE TOSITION IN MOROCCO. By cable.—Press Association.—Copyright Fez, June 7. Anxiety is felt for the safety of six American missionaries at Mequuiez. The Berbers are calling the people out for a holy war. The Beni-Mtir tribe, following the custom when in desperate straits, are bringing their daughters hound into the villages, carrying them before them on horses and cutting their daughters' throats before the dwellings of the chiefs they wish to propitiate.
A FTERCF. ATTACK. Tangier, Juno 7. Moorish horsemen fiercely attacked Ceneral Monier's column for eight hours at. Rasehna. They charged within a hundred yards in the face of heavy rifle and machine-gun fire, and suffered heavily. The French lost a surgeon-major and three soldiers, and had thirteen wounded. r , . • -p"- ■•
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 323, 9 June 1911, Page 5
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125A HOLY WAR. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 323, 9 June 1911, Page 5
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