FRONTIER FIGHTING.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 11141, 3 December 1907, Page 5

FRONTIER FIGHTING.

v DETAILS OF FIGHTING, (Press Assn.— By Telegraphs-Copyright) • ■-.'. MOROCCO, December 2. + w fi S? lt at rAlenasseh, show that 3500 of the Benis Hassen, tribe at Agubal Morocco, entered! Algeria, end attacked an .elevated fort at Sidiassa, m T^ imty x f abelas sa, and contingents of different tribes, a . portion: of th© Foreigui Legion, a company of tirailleurs, a section of a .battery of mountain artillery and a squadron of spahias. ' • The attack was excep'tibhally vigorous and well sustained, but was (repulsed with great gallantry. ' . ; ; Whole lines of trrbesnien, atteahtoting a nanj£in ff movement, were mown down i*i- 1 height, and 136. shells were . fiwd. ' v s ' The Benis Haissen returned to Agubal out their, provisions and ammunition are ratner short. .. .'■•., A large Atticis tribo, -on the Algerian side, joined the Benis Hasseh 1 but the arnval of French reinforcements jeassured tine border population, , _ GeneralrHautey proposes to drive the Jienis Hassen to the mountains, and then surround and starve them -into, submission; . He is empowe^^d to temporarily operate on Moroccan territory,' to safeguard the Algerian frontier, but the occupation is restricted to Ujdm : ci-^j^T ge joolumn is concentrating at bidid^Jennan, Algeria, to ultimately cooperate with the Ujda column of ocoupatioji, and a third column of mobile troops is to sweap along Kiss to the sea.