ARAB RAIDERS.
CLASH IN MOROCCO.
French Column Inflicts Heavy Losses.
BOMBS PROM AEROPLANES
(United P.A.-Eleetric Telegraph-Copyright)
(.Received 11 a.m.)
LONDON, December 30
The Paris correspondent of the "Times" reports that the French" mobile column on Christmas Day inflicted heavy losses on a band of 200 Arab raider's near Abadla, in Morocco. The trouble began on Christmas Eve when raiders attacked an encampment of friendly Arabs, killing many, including a chief. - ,
The French column fought a threehour engagement and aeroplanes then followed the raiders, bombing them until they disappeared across the border, carrying many dead and leaving 15 killed behind.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 309, 31 December 1930, Page 7
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