RAIN OF BOMBS

Northern Advocate, 11 July 1925, Page 5

RAIN OF BOMBS

FROM FRENCH AEROPLANES RIFF DECIMATION. HOSTAGES RESCUED. (Received 9.5 a.m.) PARIS, July 9. When 2000 Riffs assembled in the market-place at Elhad, buying eattle and stores, 11 French aeroplanes appeared and dropped a ton and a half of bombs. One hundred and seventy Riffs were killed and 600 wounded. The French forces recaptured several villages near tha Wergha River, in the Fezel Bali region, and released 100 women and children whom the enemy held as hostages to induce the Tichtala tribe to join the Riffians.

Enemy pressure in the Wergha area continues. Large concentrations are also reported in other sectors. —Sun and Reuter.

PEACE MOVEMENT,

AGREEMENT IN PRINCIPLE. (Received 9.5 a.m.) MADRID, July 10. France and Spain have reached an agreement in principle on the broad lines of a political agreement relating to Morocco. It remains to put the finishing touches thereto. M. Malvy has gone to Paris to attend the concluding session of the F.erich Chamber or July 11. —Reuter.

WAR PURPOSES VOTE

FALL OF TAZA DENIED. CRec«ived 9.5 a.m.) PARIS, July 10. The Chamber by 411 votes to 29, voted a special credit of 183,000,000 francs for the Moroccan campaign. Tie vote was preceded by a debate in which the speeches foreshadowed the Government's certainty of an enormous victory. M. Painleve, replying twice, denied the report that Taza had fallen. He reiterated that France's aim was a modus vivendi permitting France, Spain and the EifHans to work peaceful together. Pcace must be restored in the French zone.

M. Painleve explained that at the conclusion of the Madrid conference the French and Spanish peace terms would be made known "by means of pamphlets among the Moroccan tribesmen. No definite offer would be made to Abd el Krim, since the only dignified course would be to leave the initation of peace overtures to the Riffs, who would get to know the French and Spanish terms through existing channels of communication between the belligerents.—Renter.