SPANIARDS IN MOROCCO.

Auckland Star, Volume LII, Issue 187, 8 August 1921, Page 5

SPANIARDS IN MOROCCO.

NEW ADVANCE PREFACED. 1 MUTINY ON A TROOPSHIP. ; I'Receired 11 a.m.i LONDON", August 7. ". Spain is appajently determined not to ' foliOW the aavice to clear out of Africa, freely tendered in the British and French 1 Press after the recent reverse. An official * Madrid dispatch, after admitting the , J possibility of the fall of General Xavarro ' and Ins troocs who are >till holding out at Mounte Arruil, says that this, however disagreeable, will not affect the .'I offensive operations by General Berengues. for which sufficient troops are con- " eentraUng at Melilla. The recovery of the wfiole territory recently lost i= confidently expected. Dispatches from Paris, however, sliow the difficulties ahead. They declare that ia mutiny among the recruits on the troopship Valencia, en route to Morocco recently, was only quelled by the inter- . vention of two destroyers. 'The escort- , ing- destroyers now train guns on the troopships crossing the Mediterranean. Madrid advices state that the situa- ! tion in Morocco has caused n Cabinet • crisis. It is expected that Senor Mafra I will form a Cabinet j It is reported from Madrid that I General Xavarro'? troop-, have escaped I from Monte Arruit. and are making for I Melilla. A destructive fire at Casablanca Harbour, in Northern Morocco, destroyed the Customshouses and a number of warehouses were destroyed.— (Reuter.)