Word: el
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meanwhile from Paris emanated a story that the whole Moroccan difficulty had been aroused by a Riffian tribesman, Abd-el-Krim, who had been slapped in the face by the Spanish General Silvestre. The story is dubious...
...el-Krim, Chief of the Riffian tribesmen, with the aid of the Kabyles and Beni Said tribes besieged the Spanish Garrison at Tifaruin. Two relief columns, comprising in all 22,000 men, were despatched from Melilla. On arrival at Tifaruin the Spanish commanders found the Moroccan tribes holding fortified positions around the garrison. The two columns separated, one made a surprise attack from the rear, the other attacked from the front. After bloody fighting the Moors fled. The garrison had been relieved in the nick of time; their water supply had given...
...El Sol (Madrid daily) said that Spain is spending more proportionally on armaments than any other nation in the world. The reason is principally on account of past operations in Morocco and the size of the garrison now stationed there...
...exist only in the minds of some of the dramatis personae. A brilliant, interesting, witty experiment. THE DESERT HEALER-E. M. Hull -Small Maynard ($2.00). Sir Gervas Carew was a misogynist. His wife had run off with another, so he straightway went to the Sahara and became a sheik-El Hakim-or (in English) M. D. His path crossed that of Marny, Lady Geraldine. Her husband was a perfect brute, but she was loyal. Ensued sandstorms, struggles with Arab assassins, lots of noble self-sacrifice, wads of local color. "And with a little cry. . . . she lifted her lips...
...group-recruited from the small town of El Oro, state of Durango-had sworn to avenge losses inflicted on their families by Villa when he captured El Oro. They rented a building in Parras, from which they watched and waited for Villa for months. Once his life was saved by some school children who were in the line of fire, but on July 16 the chance came and Villa was killed...