MOROCCO CONFLICT.
Sharpshooters Offer Stiff Resistance. TRENCH STORM CAVES. LONDON, August 17. Mr. G. Ward Price, who is acting as correspondent with the French forces in Morocco, says the French are hindered by Berber sharpshooters concealed in mountain caves, the storming of which has entailed five days of continuous fighting.
The French now have, reached steep hills commanding the lower slopes of Mount Baddu, the formidable last stronghold of the Berbers.
Airmen report the concentration of Berbers around the wells. Each tribe fights desperately in the blazing sun to defend its qwn little tract of barren country and scrubby herds. To date 3500 Berbers have surrendered. The men are fierce and the women swarthy, handsome and tattooed. They have been placed in a concentration
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 194, 18 August 1933, Page 7
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