MOROCCO.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIC, Issue 13458, 3 December 1907, Page 5

MOROCCO.

ATTACK IN FORCE. TRIBESMEN MOWN DOWN. Press Aissoeiation-By Telegraph-Copyright Received 10.52 : p.m., December 2nd. ' • MOROCCO, . December 2. Details of the light- at Menaseeli show that 3500 men of the. Benishassefi tribe at> = Agabal, Morocco, entered and attacked an'-.elevated .fort- at .Sidioitsa, ; m the vicinity of Babs-lnesa, contingents of different tribes, a portion' of, the, Foreign Legion, a ■ company of Tiraulleurs,. a,. section 'hf v a njp.ttery of; mountain artillery, ancf a squadron 1 of Spa his 1 . • • attack- was exceptionally vigorous and well-sustainecL * Theyrebels were reputed with great gallantry. Whole- lines of tribesmen in attempting aflanking movement, were mown down- with guns, which wevei posted on the heights, 136 shells being fired.. The B-fenishassen tribesmen returned to Aghbal But provision and ammunition being ; rather tfh-o-rfc, large numbers of the Attias tribe* on to the Algerian side joined the- -"Benishasr-en®, but. the arrival of French reinforcements reassured the border 1 , -population. : .ENFORCING SUBMISSION. Received 11.18 p.m., December 2nd. MOROCCO, December 2. General Lioiitey proposes to -drive the BeniFhassens. to the mountains, then surround and 'starve them into submission. He hae been empowered to temporarily operate in the Moroccan territory to safeguard the Algerian -frontier * but the occupation' is-to IJida, A large column concentrating at Sididjennan,_ Algeria, will ultimately-co-operate at Ujda. in a mobile sweep along Kiss/to the sea.