FRANCE AND MOROCCO,
<CRE EXPEDITION TO-FIGIQ. TJnited Press Association— By Eleotrio I . Telegraph— Copyright. (Received June 5, 9.32 a.m.) . - PARIS, June 4i M. Combes, the French Premier, has an« flounced that the expedition- to Figig is( purely punitive, and that assurances hav* been given, that England and* Spain had aoij s intended to annex the territory. (Owing to the recent Moorish attack orj the Governor of Algeria, France is sending troops to the frontier. Moorish x soldiers,, under French officers, were proceeding via Algiers to reinforce the Figig garrison". The French forces summoned the Zeaugua tribe to surrender murderers and looters, otherwise their stronghold would be bombarded.) ■
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 7723, 5 June 1903, Page 2
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