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SPANISH TROOPS ANNIHILATED. FOUR HUNDRED KILLED. United Press Association—lsv Electric Telegraph Copyright, Received July 29, 8.50 a.m. MOROCCO, July 28. During last Thursday's fighting near Melilla, in Northern Morocco, a detainment of Spanish troops was surprised in a ravine and annihilated, losing four hundred men. The Moors were concealed among the heights.
MARTIAL LAW. WAR BITTERLY UNPOPULAR IN SPAIN. MUTINOUS SOLDIERS SHOT. Received July 29, 3.10 a.m. MADRID, July 28. Martial law has been proclaimed in Tarragona, Gerona, and Barcelona, where St. Paul's Church, and some schoo/s have been burnt. Nine soldiers and a corporal, who were ordered from Barcelona to Morocco, threw their arms into the sea during the passage across, and were shot on arriving at Melilla. The war is bitterly unpopular in Spain. Many of the reservists have fled to France. They declare that the war is being waged in the interests of spe:ulators.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9555, 30 July 1909, Page 5
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148AMBUSHED. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9555, 30 July 1909, Page 5
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