MOROCCO.
Tangier, July 22. Colonel Sylvestre, tiie Spanish Commandant, grossly insulted Lieut. Thiriet, the French instruct >r of the Moorish forces outside Alcarar, wlnn he was arrest’d :r d tu eight under escort to him. 'Jhinet was uit-n atcJy release I. Paris, July 22. Sylvestre, apologising to M. Boisset, states that he imprisoned the principal offender in connection uith toe incident. Madrid, July 22. Don Sylvestre alleges that Lieut. Thiriet boxed a bpjnisa t-mpo'al’s ears. A lieutenant of Spanish cavalry thereupon cmriun i-Jy invited Thinet to visit Colonel Sylvestre to ixjjiain the affair Thir ot, he says, vas never arrested.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 129, 24 July 1911, Page 4
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