Word: krim
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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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...
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...
...withdrawal of the French does not, as often reported, in any way indicate defeat. It was a purely strategic retreat, marking the beginning of a new type of warfare. Hitherto, the French have held the lines from a chain of blockhouses. Again and again, the tribes under Abd-el-Krim surrounded these small forts, with the result that the French had to undertake a series of expensive attacks in order to relieve them. As soon as the blockhouses had been provisioned and the relieving troops had withdrawn, the Riffs again surrounded them and relief fighting had to begin over again...
Some months before, this Abd-el-Krim, leader of the Riffs and once a German agent, had conducted numerous pillaging expeditions in the Wergha Valley in French Morocco, which is the south side of the Spanish zone. The French countered by occupying the valley in force. The Spanish blockade drove the Riffs to depend more and more for supplies on their agents in French Morocco. This move was accompanied by inciting other Moroccan tribes to revolt against the French. France took action to protect the natives. Abd-el-Krim replied by declaring that the occupation by French troops...
...between the Riffs and France altered the situation. Conversation was begun in Madrid between the French and Spanish Governments, and, according to diplomatic advices, a combined attack by France and Spain is to be made with the object of defeating decisively Abd-el-Krim. More important, both countries pledged themselves not to make a separate peace...