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...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...
Spanish troops in Morocco defeated the Moors in another episode of the spasmodic Moroccan War (TIME...
...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...
...called to the capital by the government who want to discuss plans for the taming of the Moroccans by pacific means. The policy of pacification was first voiced last year and has divided political Spain into two camps. The first points to the necessity of conquering the Riffians (Moroccan tribe) before it can be made possible to govern the land pacifically. The second believes that Spain cannot conquer the Riffians without great sacrifices in men and materiel. The implication is that the game is not worth the candle and that the only thing to do is to give...