A KING HOOTED.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LV, Issue 13966, 26 July 1909, Page 2

A KING HOOTED.

THE PEOPLE OF SPAIN AND WAR. FIGHTING IN MOROCCO. By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright. MADRID, July 24. The Spanish Government is censoring telegrams from Madrid. Letters show that women and children were trampled under foot and many severely injured during the departure of the troops for Melilla, one of the Spanish Presidios on the north coast of Morocco. King Alfonso, who was hooted during his tareweil visit to the military barracks, has postponed his English vfeit, and prohibited meetings against the war. resistingTthe moors. LONDON, July 24. Uie limes says the Spanish Government is determined to dispatch troop* to Melilla till the resistance •of the ■Moors is overcome. BLOODSHED AT MOROCCO. SPANIARDS HARD PUSHED: (Received July 26, 8,20 a.m.) . MOROCCO, July 25. t ierce fighting took placo at Morocco result— W ' th the foll ° win e disastrous Six Spari%h officers killed. A Lieutenant-Celonel captured. Twelve officers wounded. A number of privates killed. The number of casualties has not been ascertained, but many wer© woundGCI. , The Spanish abandoned their advanced positions owing to the impossibility of entrenching quickly enough. The Kabyle tribesmen lo«t heavily.