FOREIGN LEGION & BERBERS
LATTER IN LAST STRONGHOLD 3500 HAVE SURRENDERED LONDON, August 16. Mr Ward Price, correspondent with the French army in Morocco, declares that the French are hindered by Berber sharpshooters concealed in mountain eaves, the storming of which would result in five days’ continuous fighting. The French have now reached steep hills commanding the lower slopes of Mount BaJou, the formidable last stronghold of the Berbers. An aeroplane reports a concentration of Berbers around tho wells. Each tribe fights desperately under a blazing sun to defend its own little tract of barren country, and scrubby herds. Three thousand fivi hundred Berbers have surrendered. The men are fierce and the women swarthy, handsome and tattooed. They have been placed in a concentration camp-
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIII, Issue 210, 18 August 1933, Page 8
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