Word: riffian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...greatest work is done by what is called "infiltration," which is used with considerable success to stir up the Moorish tribes in the rear of the French lines or actually in them: A single Riffian regular crawls in the night past the French outposts, visits villages in the rear to urge war upon the French and to promise rewards from his Chief, Abd-el-Krim. The visits are repeated nightly; and if kind words fail, threats are used, and occasionally an assassination is committed to terrorize the petty chieftains into submission. The Valley of the Wergha, along which the fighting...
...Cabinet appointed General Stanislaus Naulin in charge of military operations with the object of relieving Marshal Lyautey of the intolerable burden of administering the country and directing the war, and to enable him to concentrate on nullifying the disconcerting Riffian propaganda...
...Morocco. The war between the French and the Riff tribesmen (TIME, May 11 et seq.) was resumed after a lull of nearly two weeks. A tremendous Riffian drive on Fez was halted without serious losses by the French. Sultan Mulai Yusef, for whom the French exercise a protectorate in Morocco, visited the front and gave heart to his defending faithfuls. A blockade of Riff territory was begun by joint action of the French and Spanish...
Startling discoveries of Communist activities were made by the Paris police. In a campaign which sent 120 men to prison, the police entered the house of Deputy Doriot, Communist leader, seized important documents relative to Morocco, including an offensive plan against the French for the Riffian Army and a considerable amount of correspondence from French officers on the Moroccan front, much of which had apparently been stolen. Proceedings against Deputy Marty, another Communist, were pending, for an article which he contributed to L'Humanité, Communist newspaper, in which he incited French troops to disobedience...
...visit by airplane to Morocco of Premier Paul Painlevé, who is also Minister of War, and who was accompanied by M. Laurent Eynac, Under Secretary for Air, and General Jacquemont, chief of the Premier's military staff, overshadowed to a great extent the war news from the Riffian front (TIME, May 11, et seq.). Several Riffian attacks, one along a 60-mile front, were reported, but seem to have been relatively abortive in their effects. A certain amount of concern was felt by the French over the continued infiltrations of Riffian "missionaries" who, behind the French lines, preach...