TRIBESMEN RISE.
SPAIN'S FRESH WOMtT. LONDON, December Iβ. Anjcra tribesmen have -captured Seguer, on the Straits oil Gibraltar, thus menacing the Spanish flank in Northern Morocco. The French Government is etill waiting to be informed with regard to Spain's intentions in Morocco. Meanwhile, says the Paris correspondent of "The Times," the rapidity wherewith events are moving in the Ppanish zone is causjng increasing uneasiness in .French . political . circles, where it is felt that the. success of Abdel Krim, the Riff leader, may fan the smouldering embers of Moslem agitation in Algeria and Tunisia, and so imperil the whoje of Franoe'e North African possessions. ■ ' . • , If moderate counsels prevail—and the French Government is facing the situation calmly—all military precautions which wiedom suggests will be taken, but there will be no adventurous expedition to Riff. France does not. desire, to conquer Riff. All she wants' is peace on the Biffian %
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Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 305, 24 December 1924, Page 5
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