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SPAIN PLANTING CIVIL TOWNSHIPS RIFFS MAKE MURDEROUS CALL ALHUCEMAS CASUALTIES EXCEED 4000. By Telegraph—Per Press Assn.—Copyright. Received Oct. 31. 5.5 p.m. (Reuter. LONDON. Oct. 31. Reuter’s special correspondent at the Spanish headquarters at Alhueemas states that extensive civil townships, with shops of ail kinds, are springing up i iei adoi nan 1 the neighbouring island. The foundations of a theatre, abattoir and public gardens have been laid and electric light has been installed. A civilian newsboy visits the Spanish front line daily. Three Riffs on Monday night crept up to the headquarters cf the second Spanish infantry brigade and shot a staff captain, a subaltern and a telephonist, who were asleep. They t!i a proceeded to the headquarters of General Saro, killed a ser.i-v and a soldier, and finally shot the.i - es three and a-half miles behind !■.<• Spanish lines.
It .s stated that the Spanish casualties at Alhueemas total from. 4000 to
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXII, Issue 19444, 2 November 1925, Page 9
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