HEAVY LOSSES.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18184, 22 September 1924, Page 9

HEAVY LOSSES.

FIGHTING IN MOROCCO. EFFORT TO RELIEVE GORGI'ES. 'bs cable—tees* abscc:a'::g:-:—co?r?.:GEi; A:CD y.z. CALLS association.' (Keneived September 2ist. Z.o p.nO LOXDOX. September 2D. The Madrid correspondent oi the "Daily Express" says thai the five columns operating to relieve the Gorgues Post lost heavily, Riffs offering a Scree resistance. Fighting Continues. The Tangier correspondent of the ''Daily Telegraph'-' says the British airman Cobhani arrived at 7.30 on Friday evening, having iio-.cn from London in fourteen hours with only one stop for half an hour at Madrid. The Barcelona correspondent of the •'Observer" says that nearly tverity thousand troops are engaged in the relief of the Gorgues Post. After heavy

fighting some strong positions were captured, but only at the point of the bayonet. An intense aoroplanc bombardment is proceeding in the meantime by squadrons from Tetuan, Larache, and iMelilla.

A SPANISH REPORT. (EEUTES'S telegrams.) (Received September 2lst, 11.10 p.m.) Id AD RID, September "1. A communique says Spanish troops have occupied the Gorgues position, -hus safeguarding the surrounding posts dominating tho heights above Tetuan, which otherwise were unsafe.