Word: riffs
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...breakfast sausage, short and plump and slightly curled, not to mention a bit blistered at the side from too much frying-that is how the Riff must look to the man in the moon when he swings over Morocco. And if he had listened carefully last week he might have heard the sizzling sound of frying...
...last week saw plenty of fighting in Morocco. Along the northern concave side of the sausage which is Mediterranean Coast, the Spanish made a landing and bit out a little piece of enemy territory near Ajdir. The troops were embarked at Melilla to the east and cruised along the Riff coast for two days with convoying battleships, both French and Spanish, shelling enemy works. After two feints, one morning the battleship Paris steamed into Alhucemas Bay and began to shell the Riff positions at the main beach. For four hours the bombardment with 12½-in. guns continued. The Riffs...
...sausage, the French went into action, and there the fat was hottest and the frying was fiercest. After a heavy artillery barrage, the advance was begun. The trouble from the French standpoint was that they were advancing squarely towards the mountain ridge that forms the backbone of the Riff sausage and had to fight separately for every little foothill. Nonetheless, the losses apparently were not heavy, and an advance was made several miles deep on a 40-mile front. Thirteen of the blockhouses (the French advance posts before the campaign began and the Riffs took them) were recaptured. For three...
Meanwhile on the coast of Spanish Morocco, Spanish war vessels were bombarding Ajdir and other Riff strongholds while airplanes bombed the Riff batteries and villages. It was believed that this presaged a landing of troops along the Riff coast...
While the French have been taking part in a free-for-all fight in the Riff, (TIME...