MOROCCAN WAR
"STRONG DEFENSIVE LINE"
UNREST AMONG SPANISH TROOPS.
(Received 25th .August, 2. p.m.)'
MADRID, 24th August. _ A communique states: Tiferanin having been relieved . and restocked, our troops are returning to their bases,, after establishing a strong.defensive line for future operations. ■■, We have already recovered from the battleground.the bodies of three.hundred dead Moors." The Moors abandoned their trenches and retired for some distance. An official communique ; states that a section of the Garejlano Regiment mutinied at Malaga, owing to the- men objecting to orders to. embark for Melilla! The ringleaders fired at the officers, one of; whom'was killed. The troops were eventually persuaded to embark. The ringleaders will be courtmartialled.
.During a twenty : four hours' general strike at Bilbao, the police stopped a procession in the main street, and opened fire. Five strikers were killed and several were injured. ■
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Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 48, 25 August 1923, Page 8
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