WAR IN MOROCCO.

Taranaki Daily News, 19 August 1921, Page 5

WAR IN MOROCCO.

NOTORIOUS BRIGAND INVOLVED. By Telegraph-—Press Assn —Copyright Received August 18, 10.55 p.m. London, August 18. The Tangier correspondent of the Times reports that the Spaniards and the Riffiian tribesmen are bidding for the support of the brigand Raisuli. The victorious Riffs are marching on Raisuli’s mountain stronghold, announcing that they will destroy him if he aids Spain. The latter will make him ruler of Spanish Morocco if he fights for Spain. Raisuli attacked a Spanish force, but it is known he is willing to attack the tribesmen if he is appointed Sultan. The foreign legion has begun an advance near Melilla and has secured some preliminary successes.—Times Service. EX-SOLDIERS VOLUNTEER London, August 17. The Star states that the Spanish Consulate in London is enrolling volunteers ‘ for a foreign legio : for fighting the ; Moors and Riffs in Morocco. The news I circulating among ex-service men in the Young Men’s Christian Association headquarters brought a rush of applicants'. Volunteers are not asked for characters, merely “Can you fight ?” They are paid £25 on enlistment and paid 3s 9d per day. A transport lying at Southampton will take the first draft during the week-end. Many unemployed are enlisting and walking to Southampton to embark, urged thereto by the direst necessity.