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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...What is more, we are in war time now. In war any good soldier takes the offensive-as Abd-el-Krim has done. I am going to take the offensive right now"-he paused a second, smiling whimsically-"against that interview you are expecting. I am giving no interview. I have nothing more to say than Clemenceau said: 'Je fais la guerre...
Vincent Sheean said of Abd-el-Krim...
...hills about the Wergha Valley awoke. Abd-el-Krim, leader of the Riffian tribesmen, began his long-awaited offensive on Fez, the northern capital. Guns roared, shells screamed and cracked in vivid detonations, spluttering the ground with jagged, death-dealing steel. Bombs dropped from airplanes whinnied as they tore down to earth where they burst with staggering force. Grenades rasped their ugly barks and poked the earth with their deadly stings. Rifles snapped and bullets spat death. Men lived and men died. The Moroccan War (TIME, May 11 et seq.) entered its most serious phase...
...success to stir up the Moorish tribes in the rear of the French lines or actually in them: A single Riffian regular crawls in the night past the French outposts, visits villages in the rear to urge war upon the French and to promise rewards from his Chief, Abd-el-Krim. The visits are repeated nightly; and if kind words fail, threats are used, and occasionally an assassination is committed to terrorize the petty chieftains into submission. The Valley of the Wergha, along which the fighting is taking place, is noted for its rich iron deposits; and in the views...
...Ambassador Myron T. Herrick, accompanied by Abd-el-Krim, his dog, left France for the U. S. on board the Paris...