WAR ON RIFFS

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 24 July 1925, Page 5

WAR ON RIFFS

RIFFS SUFFER, SET-BACK. A SIEGE RAISED. SPANISH POSTS ISOLATED. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. LONDON. July 23. The Paris correspondent oi the Daily Chronicle states that the Riffs have suffered a severe, set-back The French have relieved the post at Ainmaatou, fifty miles north of Fez, alter a siege lasting five weeks, in which aeroplanes supplied the garrison of five hundred with ice, medicine and even with lainmunition, which was dropped at the fort. Half of the garrison was killed or wounded before relief was effected. Major Richard, the commander, was shot through both legs when the defence was repelling a night attack. He directed the finale stages of the defence from a stretcher, encouraging his men to fight to the end. French tanks created a panic among the Riff sharpshooters when they found that, the bank armour was impervious to their bullets. Thirty other t anks have been landed a.t OasabLancia. PARIS, July 22. The newspapers publish disquieting dispatches from Fez, reporting that the enemy as entrenched between Arbast-isza and Ana.iclia, and is preventing the provisioning of the Spanish posts, which are holding out despite the pressure. A number of Turkish colonels formerly with the German ’army are assisting Ivrim.