Word: melilla
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...world was startled by the announcement that the Spanish forces in Morocco had retired to the Anjera line. This line - a chain of trenches and fortified positions- had behind it all the important and most of the small zocos (markets). Along the coast, from Tetuán to Melilla, warships were posted; and, at the last place, the Spanish held another zone extending almost to the limit of Spanish Morocco near the Algerian frontier. A blockade had been declared...
...situation was said to be more serious than at any time since the Melilla disaster of 1921. Beni Hassan and Beni Said tribes combined in attacking the Spanish forces and were joined by numerous tribesmen from hitherto friendly groups. A column of Moorish auxiliaries and Foreign Legion troops under the command of General Riquelme was defeated with the loss of two officers, killed by hand grenades...
Because of unrest in Morocco, the entire political situation at Madrid remains unsettled. The decisive defeat of the Spanish forces near Melilla in July, 1921, still rankles bitterly in 20,000,000 proud Spanish breasts. The condition of Spanish morale is well indicated by the wholesale national endorsement at the recent pardoning, by the King, of soldiers who mutinied against going to Morocco. The military position of the Spanish troops continued last week, according to reports, " precarious " and subject to frequent raids from the tribesmen...
...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...
General Weyler, head of a special mission from the General Staff, left for Melilla to arrange for another campaign against the Riffians; the object being to restore Spanish power over that territory. The war, if undertaken, will mark the close of a year of troubled peace in Spanish Morocco...