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...legal point involved seems to hinge largely on the question of where the U. S. aviators enlisted in the French cause. A number of Americans, former members of the Lafayette Escadrille, have enlisted in the "Sherifian Air Force"; that is, the French Air Force, but nominally the Air Force of the Sultan of Morocco. The U. S. statute, if applicable, declares that persons making such enlistments are guilty of high misdemeanors punishable by fines up to $1,000 and imprisonment for not more than three years...
Sheshuan (which one is at liberty to spell in almost any possible way. -Chechaouen, Chechouan, Shishawen, Sheshaun, Sheshuan, Chechaoen), which is the Riffian headquarters at the western end of their sausage, was bombed 17 times by the Sherifian Escadrille (volunteer American aviators) with the destruction of many buildings and the estimated killing of 100 Riffians...
...weather comes to his aid. An incident in the fighting in Morocco last week, was the report that more than 16,000 ex-German soldiers are fighting in the French Legion against the Riffs and doing well. Also that the ex-American aviators who have been organized into the Sherifian Air Guard to fight the Riffs have received a number of threatening letters supposed to have come from French Communists. An example of the epistles...