MOROCCAN REBELLION
A FIERCE BATTLE. MADRID, September 10. Advices from Melilla state that a column of 6000 Spanish troops surprised the Aloors, who were strongly entrenched with two guns, near Casabona. The Aloors were mown down by the Spanish guns; but there was much fierce hand-to-hand fighting, which lasted for 10 hours. The Moors fled eventually on the approach of Spanish reinforcements. September 12. Official -. An offensive was launched at Melilla to-day. Official: Troops, assisted by the warsips, aro advancing. The enemy is in flight before our artillery. They set fire to and abandoned the villages and harvested the grain. They left numerous dead. The Spanish losses are insignifi--1 cant.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3523, 20 September 1921, Page 19
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