Word: tangier
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...northern edge of the Riff, Krim's artillerymen continued to pepper the Spaniards at Tangier, as they have done more or less all winter...
...Tangier, it was reported that Sidi Muhammed Zeziane, Foreign Minister in Abd-el-Krim's Government, was bound to the muzzle of a cannon and blown to atoms by Riffians who believed that he had betrayed them...
...Government if it intended to intervene in the Moroccan War and, if so, would it permit debate before military and naval operations were begun. Foreign Secretary Austen Chamberlain replied: "I cannot give that assurance. If the Government comes to the conclusion that there is a serious menace in the Tangier zone* its hands must not be tied...
...Internationalized Tangier commands the Strait of Gibraltar. This Strait is at present dominated by Britain at "the Rock" (Gibraltar), and it is a fixed tenet of British policy to brook no rivals. The "menace" referred to by Mr. Chamberlain referred to reports that Abd-el-Krim was preparing to attack the Tangier zone...
Premier Painlevé, who later declared himself thrilled by the "wonderful air journey," left Paris for Toulouse by train. There he took a military airplane, was flown to Barcelona, from Barcelona to Alicante and Malaga, thence, skirting Tangier, by the sea route to Rabat en the Moroccan coast...