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Angry Retort. A few hectic hours later, the Quai d'Orsay dismissed the charge, insisting that Eban had failed to furnish "any document or any proof." The Israelis angrily retorted that Eban had given Hure "exact, precise, detailed and well-founded information," and awaited a formal reply. At week's end the French had yet to make any further comment...
Vogel seems like a hure thing to represent this country at London next summer in the marathon. He'll run the mile against Captain Frank Gurley tomorrow. Palmieri, who is gunning for a 440-yard hurdles berth on the Olympic team, will meet Dave Hamblett and Jim Wheeler of the Crimson in the 600. "This should be a very interesting race," Coach Mikkola predicted yesterday...
...accept the defeat in 1926 of their leader Abd-el-Krim. Brave, pious, made ferocious by constant pursuit, they have enlisted a mixed crew of bandits and murderers from the mountains, massacred many an unwary French detail. Against them the French have plodded remorselessly under tall, spectacled General Andre Hure who sends home terse casualty lists, plods...
When General Hure launched his campaign last year, the remnants of the Berber rebels were loose in the desert south of the Atlas Mountains. In a slow encircling movement he herded them northwest to the rim of the desert. His plodding columns closed in from north, east and southeast like beaters in a lion hunt. On the south and southwest, crack Legion regiments waited for the prey to enter the trap. Slowly, suspiciously, the Berbers, carrying their women and children, rode into the mountains up four confluent valleys a year ago last spring. The trap was sprung...
...General Hure could have ended the "war" at once by sending a few bombing planes over the valleys, turning them into poison gas traps. But he knew that his enemy was brave and honorable, that such a massacre would have sown rebellion in Morocco for decades to come. He chose the harder job of forcing a straightforward surrender. In their strongholds, the leaders kept the Berbers at a pitch by preaching "Death before surrender." The French began a tedious, hazardous prowling up the peaks, picking off snipers. In one desperate skirmish they killed the Berber Generalissimo Sidi Ben Ahmed. Some...