RIFFIS RETREAT.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18430, 10 July 1925, Page 9

RIFFIS RETREAT.

SPAHIS AS SHOCK TROOPS. NATIVE CAVALRY INFLICT HEAVY LOSSES. (bt cable— association—coptkioht.) (australian and x.z. cable association.) (Received July fjt'i, 0.0 p.m.) LONDON, July S.

Tho Paris correspondent of the '•'Daily Chronicle" states that a Riffian effensive on the Taza sector, which lasted two days, has been shattered. Columns of the enemy again and again stormed the French positions at Babtaza, but always met a deadly fire, until they fled helterskelter, the French throwing two squadrons of Spahis against the disheartened c>nemv.

For the first time in the campaign "Arme Blanche" had a chance. The Spahis rode full tiit at the flying enemy, sabreing their rear. Many Riffians threw away their rifles to flea, but the Spahis overtook them, and those who did not fall to tie French sabres were hurled into a ravine by the rush of squadrons. Hundreds of Riffian deal mark the line of flight. The road communications between Zaza and Fez have been re-established.

NEWS FROM THE FRONT. FRENCH PREMIER SATISFIED. (BEUTES'S TEr.rCR'.MS.) PARIS. July 8. 31. Painleve, Prime Minister, in an interview, stilted that the precipitate, departuro of General Naulin for Morocco was in no manner necessary. "The news of the past two days," lie pddod, "has be;n very s;.tisfa tory from the viewpoint of both the operations and tho loyalty of tribes."

INTERNATIONAL ZONE. BRITISH NOTE TO SPAIN. (AUSTRALIAN AM) N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION 1 .) (Received July sth, 7.45 p.m.) LONDON, July 8.

Tho British Note to Madrid regarding Tangier will indicate an intention to avoid entanglement in the Moroccan imbroglio, or any action at Tangier which might give Abd-el-Krim a pretext to beconio a challenger of tho neutrality of the international zone.