MOROCCAN RISING

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XIX, Issue 6280, 26 July 1921, Page 2

MOROCCAN RISING

MUTINOUS NATIVE LEVIES E ATTACK OX SPAXTARDS. REPELS ESE THE RAYOXET. (United Service Telegrams.) (Received S a.m 1 MADRID, July 21. An escaped ollicer reports that the native trained levies shCwel,! pievious indiea,lions of treaehery and eonimitteif arts of mutiny, but Gene,a 1 Silvestr© did| not heed the reports, believing that his presence would, restrain Jdiem and restory order; but when the general dispatched the hulk of his i Paips to a new I«tdtion thousands of lulliy armed and trained mutineers, possessing artillery, attacked the remainder. Uenera.l Sil.vuslrc and his staff silcoeede.l in getting hack to Annal, near MeliHa, where the Spanish entrenched the nisei ve-.

The rebels <ut off (feneral SilvesU'e s force from its supply base. He then ‘ordered a retreat to Sediedriss. he. with his staff, remaining at the pot of danger ot Annal. The retreating troojiF. carrying tlto wounded, procntled in small' contingents, each being attacked eu route by the pursuing rebels, who charged with fixed bayonets.

A cablegram published yesterday contained the followin';: —A strong eonkn. gent of native,; violently attacked the adviinced Spanish position ;il MeliVa. ;i Spanwh j)or!. on file llMth const of Morocco. It is reported that second hundreds of Spnninrds were killed find wounded after a desperate struggle.