Word: moroccans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tangiers dispute now rages be tween France, Britain, Italy, Spain ; some other nations have ancillary interests. The bone of contention is: Who will govern Tangiers on the north Moroccan coast, now under international control? For various reasons the Powers have never been able to settle this question and the dispute has lasted intermittently since 1906 (TIME, July...
...following are points in the program of the Dictator, Captain General Primo Rivera: abolition of jury trial system; war on profiteers and high prices; offer to Province of Catalonia of partial Home Rule; strenuous prosecution of the Moroccan War; trial of members of the Alhucemas Government, " which? shows the worst of vices...
...Increasing the subsidy to Raisuli (see page 9) and other Moroccan chiefs from 2,000,000 to 20,000,000 pesetas without accounting for this expenditure...
Meanwhile from Paris emanated a story that the whole Moroccan difficulty had been aroused by a Riffian tribesman, Abd-el-Krim, who had been slapped in the face by the Spanish General Silvestre. The story is dubious...
...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...