TO CARRY ON

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 11 July 1925, Page 5

TO CARRY ON

WAR IN MOROCCO. SUPPLIES VOTED. GREAT VICTORY PREDICTED. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT . PARIS, July 10. The Chamber, by 411 votes to 29, voted a special credit of 183,000,000 francs for the Moroccan campaign. The vote preceded a debate, in which speeches foreshadowed the Government’s certainty of an enormous victory. . . M. Painleve, replying twice, denied a report that Tasso, had fallen. He reiterated that France’s aim was a modus vivendi permitting French, Spanish and Riffians to work peacefully together.. He added that peace must be restored in the French zone, where France was bound to protect populations in her charge.

F R ANCO-SPANISH. PROPAGANDA. PEACE TERMS FROM AEROPLANES. PARIS, July 10. During the course of last night’s speech in the Chamber, M. Painleve explained that at the conclusion of the Madrid conference the Franco-Spanish peace terms would be scattered' _ by means of pamphlets among the tribesmen. No definite offer would be made to Abd-el Ivrim, since the only dignified course would be to leave.the initiation of overtures for peace to the Rift’s, who would get to know the FrancoSpanifih terms through the existing channels of communication between belligerents. MADRID. July 10. The Franco-Spanish conferees reached an agreement in principle on the broad lines of a political agreement regarding Morocco. It'remains to put the. finishing touches thereto. M. Malvy has gone to Paris to attend' the concluding session of the French Chamber on July 11.

PROGRESS OF CAMPAIGN. FEZ THREATENED. LONDON, July 10. The Daily Express’ Paris correspondent says : The Sultan _ left Fez for Rehat, as the situation in the area between Fez and Taza appears to be uncertain, and the capital is threatened. FRENCH RECAPTURE VILLAGES. PARIS, July 10. A communique savs: The French recaptured several villages near the Wergha river, in the Fezeldari region, and released 100 women and children whom the enemy held as hostages to induce the Fichtala tribe to join the Riffians. Enemy pressure on the Wergha continues. ' Large concentrations are also reported- in other sectors. BOMBS CAUSE HAVOC. PARIS, July 9. When 2000 Riffs were assembled in the market place at Elahad, buying cattle and stores, 11 French aeroplanes appeared and dropped one and a half tons of bombs. On© hundred and seventy Riffs were killed and 600 wounded.