MOROCCO.
CURIOUS NATIVE CUSTOM, RENEWED FIGHTING. Bt Electric Tolcernoh. —Copyright. (Received June 8, 9.35 a..m.) FEZ, June 7. Anxiety is felt for the safety of six American missionaries at Meduinez. The Berbers are calling the people out for a holy war. The Beni-Mtir tribe, following the custom when in desperate straits, are bringing their daughters bound into the villages, carrying them before them on horses and cutting their daughters’ throats before the dwellings of the chiefs they wish to propitiate. TANGIER, June 7.
Moorish' horsemen fiercely attacked General Monier’s column for eight hours at Raselma. They charged within a hundred yards in the face of heavy rifle and machine gun fire, and suffered heavily. The French lost' a surgeonmajor and three soldiers and had thirteen wounded.
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Taranaki Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 143520, 8 June 1911, Page 3
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126MOROCCO. Taranaki Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 143520, 8 June 1911, Page 3
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