Word: jellaghas
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...eerie and still, chilling Europeans into renewed awareness of their dependence on the Moslems who served them as cooks and maids, clerks and mechanics. The French had warned that they would fire on demonstrators, but in seaboard villages flanking Algiers, the Moslems demonstrated anyway, sometimes led by uniformed jellagha. In Constantine, thousands of Moslems flung themselves against massed French troops. By strike's end, there were 14 French casualties, 88 Moslem dead...
...Palace in Carthage, where 44 Tunisians and 22 French officers stood before His Highness Sidi Mohammed el Amin, the mustachioed monarch of Tunis, and explained their plan. Twenty-two teams, composed of two Tunisians and one Frenchman, would go into the hills to offer amnesty to the fellaghas. Each jellagha who accepted would get a formal certificate of absolution, bearing his thumbprint to prevent chicanery; a stub, also with thumbprint, would be retained by the government. "Go, my dear children," blessed the Bey of Tunis. "May God help you." The emissaries had a deadline: midnight, Dec. 9. The following...
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