RIOT FOR WATER
TROUBLE IN MOROCCO CASABLANCA (French Morocco), Sept. 3. Ten thousand Moroccan Arabs, maddened by water shortage, rioted at Meknes, near Fez, this morning. Foreign Legion troops, after fierce hand-to-hand fighting, fired, dispersing them, killing six and wounding 17. Sixteen soldiers were taken to hospital. An accountant of the water supply company was captured by the Arabs and almost stoned to death. Yesterday natives, worked up by agitators, demonstrated against rationing at the water company’s offices. Ringleaders were arrested. This morning when the ringleaders were to be tried before the native court, the natives gathered angrily in thousands, brushing aside the police guard.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19480, 12 November 1937, Page 10
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105RIOT FOR WATER Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19480, 12 November 1937, Page 10
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