THE HOLY WAR.
:' r ' ? . MOORS AND FRENCH FIGHT FIERCELY. MANY CASUALTIES. ,THE PRETENDER WILL GO TO FEZ. 01 IBIEOBAPn—PREBS.ABSOOIATION^HCiiPtBIdHi; (Rec. April'l9, 4.18 p.m.) . Morocco, April 18. Hoping to dcstroy'%-section of'the-raihtay from Oran (a seaport of Algeria), 3000 Moorish horsemen and 2000 foot soldiers, organised by preachers of the ''Jehad (Holy War) for the interior, made "during" tlib night an attack on Colonel Pie'rron's . camp, at .Talma defile, westward of Bcrizifez;, railway st-atioii.' The Foreign Legion," with Zouaves "and sharpshooters, after a desperate light for six hours, repelled tlie Moorsy and/pursued them' for nine miles. In the camp 125 dead Moors were found, and there were many .beyond.;., Hundreds were wounded. (;•' Colonel Pierron lost 28 killed, including an oiiicer, and lOSr'wounded, including' 64 Europeiui non-commissioned officers and men. ' RABAT TO BE UNVESTED. Morocso, April 17. , Three mahallahs of troops, numbering 20;000, have left Marak'esh to reinforce Mulai Hoiid, who intends ;tO invest Rabat; a seaport oh 'the Atlantic coast. . He n ill then proceed to Fez, where the people some month's ago declared for him; aiid wkerbhe will be proclaimed Sultan. ; v.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 176, 20 April 1908, Page 7
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181THE HOLY WAR. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 176, 20 April 1908, Page 7
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