WAR WITH RIFFS.
GRAVE SITUATION
LONDON, May 13,
The Daily Herald’s Paris correspondent says that the situation in French Morocco is really much more grave than is officially admitted. One of the disquieting symptoms is M. Painleve’s admission that press telegrams from Morocco are being censored. Information in military circles show that the Riffs have not been repulsed, but only checked, and that with the greatest difficulty. Abdel Krim is waging trench warfare along a front of 121 miles. The Communist deputy, M. Berthon, reveals that during' the spring of 1923, 'M. Poincare consenting, he saw Abdel Krim in Paris. The Riff lender then interviewed the Foreign Office, which offered him assistance against the Spaniards in return for his acceptance of a French protectorate over the Riffs. Abdel Knra rejected this offer and France thereupon joined in Spain's attacks upon the Riffs.—A. and N.Z. cable,
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 138, 15 May 1925, Page 5
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