CHRISTMAS DAY BATTLE
FRENCH AND ARABS , INCIDENT IN MOROCCO (Received Dec. 31, 11 a.m.) PARIS, Dec. 30. A - Fetich mobile column ou Christmas Day inflicted .-heavy, losses; on a band of 2CC) Arab raiders, near Abadla, Morocco. Trouble began on Christmas Eve, when t lie ranters attacked an encampment of friendly Arabs, killing many, including a chief. The French column fought a threehour engagement, and aeroplanes, then followed the raiders, bombing them until they disappeared aeoss the boundary, carrying many dead and leaving 15 kill ed behind
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17454, 31 December 1930, Page 7
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87CHRISTMAS DAY BATTLE Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17454, 31 December 1930, Page 7
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