MOORISH FIGHTING
FRENCH PREMIER’S STATEMENT. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) PARIS, May 20. M. Painleve, in a statement <h? the Moroccan war? ileclaied that France did 'not desire- colonial expansion, but only the ' establishment of lasting peade, conforming with- French <1 g l nity. 1 She” 4 could" hot avoid (the caihpaign without abandoning' to the fanatical Riffs the whole of Morocco, ami eventually' leading to the loss u: the whole of the French North African possessions. '' v - BOTH SIDES MARK TIME. ■ ■ CAIRO, May 19. There-is a .lull in the Franco-Riff-Moroccan .Jighting. . French columns are waiting for further artillery before resuming the offensive.’.. • ■ ■ • The Riffs* are' entrenching the 'reinforcements front” thir'Spanish' r zone.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 21 May 1925, Page 2
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