WAR IN MOROCCO.
PRELIMINARY OPERATIONS. TO BIG OFFENSIVE. SY CABbK —PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT PARIS, Aug. IS. The French attack on the Tsoul Font is developing favourably. The enemy resisted at certain points, but were unable to seriously oppose the advance of four French columns. Nevertheless the operations are a mer© curtain-raiser to the main offensive beginning at the end of the month, when General Petain returns. Meanwhile the French aim is to dislodge the Riffs from their raiding posts and safeguard communications with Algeria and, politically, French influence with neighbouring tribes. General Petain has gone to Morocco after conferring with the Premier (M. Painleve). who made a statement that everything was being arranged with a view to taking the offensive with the utmost speed and efficiency and the minimum bloodshed.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 20 August 1925, Page 5
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129WAR IN MOROCCO. Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 20 August 1925, Page 5
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