Word: beni
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that I called upon General Silvestre of the Spanish Army at Mellila in the interest of my tribe, the Beni Uriaghel, who wanted 100,000 pesetas ($15,000) to keep the peace that year with the Spanish. This was the custom of the strong Moroccan tribes at that time. The Spaniards have many times bought peace...
...Krim at Outdhjda, Morocco. M. Painlevé stated that the Outdhjda conference would assemble "as soon as possible, probably within a fortnight." He let it be made known that France does not recognize Abd-el-Krim as "Sultan" but merely as caĩd of the Beni Ouriaghel tribe. The French will accordingly invite the caĩds of other rebellious Moroccan tribes to send representatives to Outdhjda, with the intention of making a separate peace with each...
Reports from Fez indicate that on retiring from Ajdir before the Spanish advance, Abd-el-Krim fled to the all but inaccessible Beni Arous Mountains, the most rugged of the Atlas Range. There, with his brother, Sidi Muhammed, and some tens of thousands of faithful tribesmen, he is reported to be resting and attempting to engineer more tribal alliances against the French and Spanish...
...desperate resistance of the Riffians, will be extremely difficult, because the rainy season will very shortly open and transform the salient into a quagmire over which French war paraphernalia cannot be dragged; 2) politically the victory is of some importance because it has led to the surrender of the Beni Urriaguet tribe, whose territory the French now dominate...
...will not be announced until his arrival in Geneva. Other prominent educators to be identified with the faculty of the new School will be Professor F. Dominois of the Ecole des Hautes Etudes Orientales, Paris, Professor J. L. Brierly of Oxford, Professor James T. Shotwell of Columbia University, Professor Beni Prasad of the University of Allahabad, India, Mr. Desmond Fitzgerald, Minister of External Affairs, Irish Free State, and Mr. William S. Culbertson, Vice-chairman of the United States Tariff Commission...