Word: ajdir
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Dates: during 1925-1925
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...been constructed. And a star-shaped series of radiating trenches and dugouts extending for several miles has made of Targuist a stronghold which the Riffians are reported to consider impregnable. Cables assert that Abd-el-Krim has transported thither his treasures, arms, captives. Apparently Targuist is to replace Ajdir as his capital...
Spanish troops in Morocco occupied themselves last week with the task of strengthening their grip upon Ajdir, onetime capital of Abd-el-Krim, and consolidating Spanish positions which now dominate practically the whole vicinity...
...Madrid, General Primo de Rivera was felicitated at the War Ministry by 20,000 admirers, upon his success in capturing Ajdir. Said he: "The Spanish Army has now wiped out the debt to itself incurred in a former generation's unhappy Cuban War" [i. e., the Spanish-American struggle...
...victorious come many unique honors. For having conquered Ajdir, capital of Abd-el-Krim, General Primo de Rivera has been rewarded at Madrid by being adopted 165 times in a single day. The adopting was done at the Ministry of War by the representatives of Spanish towns and villages which wished to make the General "their...
...first Marqués of Teneriffe and Duke of Rubi. They have differed over the control of Catalonia, and have all but come to blows anent the conduct of the Spanish forces in Morocco. Now at last General de Rivera has triumphed. Last week, as the conqueror of Ajdir, the former capital of Abd-el-Krim (TIME, Oct. 12), he was able to demand that General Weyler be relieved by the Spanish Government of his post as Chief of Staff of the Spanish Army...