AFFAIRS IN MOROCCO.
SITUATION CRITICAL. GREAT ALARM AMONG EUROPEANS. Received November 28, 8.40 a.m. MOROCCO, November 27. Tribes hitherto neutral have joined the Beni Hassan tribe. The situation is critical. Reinforcements are urgently needed, lest the French be overwhelmed. There is great alarm among Europeans and natives all along the Algerian frontier.Abdul Aziz, the Sultan, is co-oper-ating with the French to crush the Beni Hassan movement. FRENCH ACCOUNTS OF FIGHTING. HAND TO HAND STRUGGLES. >• Received November 28, 8.9 a.m. PARIS, November 27. French accounts of the fighting, published in the paper Le Temps, show that Colonel Telineau's infantry were almost surrounded on Sunday morning, during a mist. Though the machine guns inflicted terrible losses, the Arabs renewed the attack with a desperate fury that threatened to overwhelm the camp. Then 200 Spahis repeatedly charged and engaged in a fierce hand-to-hand struggle. They ultimate'y compelled the Arabs to retreat.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8992, 29 November 1907, Page 5
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148AFFAIRS IN MOROCCO. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8992, 29 November 1907, Page 5
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