WAR IN MOROCCO.
TOUG H I-OEM EX. PET AIN’S TRIBUTE TO- RUFFS. LONDON, Aug. 11 Marshal Petain’s report on the Moroccan .situation, says ta message from Paris, describes the Riffs as the most powerful, the best armed, ami the most courageous enemy he had ever encountered in his colonial expeditions. They have, he says, a reserve of from 30,000 to 40,000 warriors—keen mountaineers, active, and skillul riflemen, whose frugal habits and powers of enduiiaiiu-o render unnecessary the slow-moving convoys, which hamper the French forces. The Hitts, too. are abundantly supplied with machineguns, artillery and ammunition. “The brutal truth.” the Marshal adds, “is that we were caught unprepared.”
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 25 August 1925, Page 5
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