BOMBED FOR HOURS

Gisborne Times, Volume LXIII, Issue 10096, 8 September 1925, Page 5

BOMBED FOR HOURS

FRENCH PLANES TERRORISE RIFFS.

HEAVY FIGHTING AT ISSUALD

(SYDNEY SUN CABLE.) PARIS, Sept. G. Fifty French aeroplanes rained bombs or. Tetuan for four hours, spreading terror among Abdel Ivrim's forces. Heavy fighting occurred at Issuala, a fortified post dominating the region of south-west Ouezxan. The Riffs penetrated to the outskirts of Ouezzan. Attacks on Jebelenakim were repulsed. The Spanish fleet is preparing to land twelve thousand troops at Alhucemas.

ALL-DAY FIGHTING ON WESTERN FRONTIER.

RIFF PRESS ATTACKS WITH GREATEST DETERMINATION.

(Reuter’s Telegram.) MADRID, Sept. 6. A communique from Morocco says that fighting was general all day long on the western frontier. On the Tetuan sector it was especially fierce. At Benihosmar massif the enemy pressed attacks with the greatest determination. The troops destined for our main operations were concentrated along the front. PARIS, Sept. 6.

A Fez communique states: Enemy activity is increasing on both fronts. The garrison at Ainmaluf has been relieved.

The rir squadron co-operated in an effective bombardment of Sheshuan.

ABDEL KRIM’S COMPLAINT

PEACE TERMS NEVER COMMUNICATED.

(A. and N.Z. Coble Association.) (Received Sept. 7, 7.25 p.m.) LONDON, Sept. 6. Abdel Ivrim again complains through the “Times’ ” Tangier correspondent that the Franco-Spanish peace terms were never communicated to him despite all statements to the contrary. He was therefore unable to accept or reject them. He declares the assertion that he received them was a lie published for political purposes in order to deceive the public and mislead the Franco-Spanish peoples so as to persuade them to continue the war. He simultaneously ordered Riff agents at Tangiers to inform General Esterla that if the Franco-Spanish terms correspond with the terms published in the Fran-co-Spanish Press he is prepared i-o negotiate on that basis.