Word: el
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...effort to counteract the stream of propaganda launched by Abd-el-Krim, supreme commander of the Riffs, who last week fell from a mule and broke a leg, Sultan Mulai Yusef ordered investigation of the tribes faithful to himself...
From numerous other sources came the news that France had ordered large quantities of munitions from the Skoda factories in Czecho-Slovakia; that France and Spain, in conference at Madrid, had decided to blockade the Riff coastline; that Abd-el-Krim, Riff leader, was using old A. E. F. equipment...
...Riff, an unknown person managed to obtain interviews with Abd-el-Krim, who declared that he was ready to discuss peace terms with the French as soon as they wished. A communication to the outside world spoke of "our struggle against those who seek to act tyrannically against us and deprive us of the blessing of the enjoyment of those sacred rights without which a man cannot be described as human...
...open sincere amity, as without them we also cannot live a life of progress or rise to that greatness and glory which do honor to the sons of men. This is the substance of my ideas. It interprets all my proposals, all of which you know. Peace." (Signed) "ABD-EL-KRIM, El Khattabi...
Concerning the war between Abd-el-Krim, "Sultan" of the Riffs, and the French in north Morocco (TIME, May 11 et seq.), there were, last week, rumors, rumors everywhere and hardly a fact to print...