TROUBLE IN MOROCCO
NOVEL METHOD OF CONVEYING WATER. (By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) PARIS, May 7. (Received May 8, 7.5 p.m.) A Rabat message states that casualties among Colonel Freydenberg’s force in recent fighting with the Riffs were, thirteen killed, mostly natives, and 100 wounded. Water in the form of ice-blocks was conveyed by aeroplanes to four or five French posts in the besieged distrief. LONG CAMPAIGN FEARED. BEVERE TASK AHEAD. PARIS, May 8. (Received May 8, 10.55 p.m.) The reported success in Morocco has only partially allayed growing apprehensions that a big campaign lies ahead of the French forces. General Columat’s column has arrived before Bibane and encountered the solidly organised Riffs in successive fines of trenches, covered by remarkably accurate artillery fire, suggesting that Europeans are working the guns. The latest news indicates that the French have stemmed the enemy advance, though a number of French posts are still breieged. The French have re-established their posts southward’ of Onergha river and expelled the invaders, precluding a fresh Riff offensive in the direction of Taza Fez. The fact that the Riffs hold Bibane hills prevented the French from victualling several posts in the vicinity and they were compelled to drop food from aeroplanes. They also dropped blocks of ice for water.
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Southland Times, Issue 19546, 9 May 1925, Page 7
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