THE DOUBLE-CROSS
R.IFFS WERE TOO WARY.
FAILURE OF. FIRST: ATTEMPT.
PARIS, 9th • September.
"Le'Journal's" .Madrid;correspondent says the preparations for the Spanish landing at Alhucenias began-on Saturday evening.; Two Spanish naval detachments escorting the troop >ships left .'V; Ceuta and Melilla respectively. '"■: '■.:. , The:detachment from Ceute feinted a :' landing south.oi-WadlaUjWHichis south: , of Tetuan, and-then rushed .full,.speed t6 : Alhucemas.' ...The detachment' from,'.. Melilla. feinted a, landing at" Sidirriss, and then joined the Ceuta detachment, '. which had been reinforced by French warships. The false landings were intended to'mislead the Riffs with regard to the real qbject of the; attack! I S!■;-. . . ■ An intense bombardment of,'the''coast ■- was conducted on : Sunday "evening (by French, and Spanish warships, support- .'■" ed '■ by an air: force, and:,; on Monday ': morning the landing of troops was ,:at-/ . tempted. ' It resulted only iff: costly; ■;' losses, as the Riffs'were prepared,: and v offered a determined, resistance.' "■'.''.'..■ ; ' , •
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 62, 10 September 1925, Page 5
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