ABDUL KRIM’S ARMY
MOVING SPIRIT A PRUSSIAN. * SERBIAN CHIEF «&? ARTILLERY. (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) LONDON, Nov. 1. Reuter’s Tangier correspondent says that advices from Arab-French sources show that the moving spirit behind the Riff resistance is an ex-captain of the Prussian Guard, who joined the French Foreign Legion before the war as the result of a scandal. He became a sergeant, hut deserted to the Ruffians in 1921. Ten German deserters from the Riff's surrendered this week. They complain bitterly of Abdel Krim’s harshness and declare he shoots the fainthearted without the slightest compunction. The Riffinn chief of artillery is - a Serbian cx-Colonel.—A. and N.Z. cable.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 283, 3 November 1925, Page 9
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