MOROCCAN WAR.
THE SPANISH LOSSES.
(By Cable—Press (AuitralUn * nd Nz - CM* Asseciitjon.) .">■■• MADRID, November 2&. The Spanish losses in Morocco since July amount to 10,000 killed and 20,000 wounded and sick. VOLUNTEERS ILL-TREATED. (United S*rriee.j - LONDON, November 25. Fifty-tlhree haggard Englishmen, clad in oddts and ends of clothing, with wide, collared green shirts, and boots of rop© and canvas, and looking like starved brigands, have arrived from Spain. They are the survivors of a secretly, .recruited English contingent for tha Spanish Foreign Legion. They confirm the etatements of ill-treatment, and add that just because they could not understand Spanish "words of command they were beaten iwith rifle I>utts, slashed with whips, and tied to posts. They wrote, to the Premier and Commander fcenworthy, and their rekas« soon followed. X
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Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17314, 28 November 1921, Page 8
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129MOROCCAN WAR. Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17314, 28 November 1921, Page 8
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