Word: krim
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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English Officers. No fewer than 64 English officers, veterans of the World War, were said to be serving at present under Krim...
French native troops, mostly Senegalese, are allegedly often persuaded to desert to Krim by agents who penetrate the French lines and promise such deserters two young Riffian wives apiece...
Emeralds. The source of Krim's remarkable wealth was declared to be certain valuable mineral deposits in the Riff, which are allegedly worked by women when the fighting male Riffi are at the front. Emeralds and gold are said to be mined in quantities, except when the heavy winter rains cause flooding of the areas excavated...
Anesthetics. The Riffi were said to suffer terribly through a lack of anesthetics. One strapping Irish surgeon in Krim's service allegedly overcomes this lack by causing his patients to be held by attendents while he mercifully delivers a single jiu-jitsu punch which renders them unconscious long enough for him to operate...
...Cool Krim. The Riffian Sultan was described by several of his English officers as "the coolest man I ever...