WAR IN MOROCCO.
THE END IN SIGHT, SPANISH TROOPS WITHDRAW SAVING MEN AND MONEY. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received Nov. 19, 8.20 .pan. London, Nov. 19. The Spanish Embassy in London has received the following message from Madrid: “By means of a clever and fortunate operation, accompanied by only three casualties, the garrison of Xaven, numbering 10,000, has fallen back on Darraeabba. This is the first stage of an important total evacuation towards Tetuan, and constitutes definite progress in the realisation of the Directory’s plans, which hitherto no Government has been able to face. -It represents the suppression of l>Bo posts, resulting in future economy in men and money.’* Th© Daily Chronicle comments that the despatch indicate® the actual or imminent conclusion of the Spanish war in Morocco. When th© Spanish forces cease to fight in the lulls where the Riff tribes live, there will be an end of the Spanish zone.
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Taranaki Daily News, 20 November 1924, Page 7
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