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Colonist, Volume LII, Issue 12681, 28 October 1909, Page 1

Hero is a graphir; picture by Mr. H. W. Nevinson, who is with the Spanish troops in the HilF for the "Daily . News" :—" When one thinks of all that preparation and expenditure, i that transport and supply that marching, shelling, br.l'ooniug, dust, sweat and sickness, n;;d lh?n looks at those littl*? brown houses where Rien and v.on-cn are living -.vho.u all those preparations arc «:;-: r.-Jo-J to kill bacausc tlipy objected to the railways of two little mineral concessions in tfleir country, thet whole tiling does seem ■ratlieir a silly way of going on. The climax of silliness would be if, when all is ready asid the great assault is psirpotrated at last, it is found tihat no Moors are left -on the mountain* to kill, and that an army corps has been gathered here to wreak -*i%ngeance*Cii a man and a boy. The balloon, to-day reports only about "300 Moors made out on their positions. On the other -hand, we hear of Moors of the Riff gathering from all the fastnesses of their wild country. One , cannot be sure." -