Word: tribesmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...keep the tribal leaders in the provinces posted on the trend of events. He is extremely well-informed, intelligent, speaks seven languages. His influence over recent events was stated to have been great and, as he has powerful and rich friends abroad, it was not surprising that the provincial tribesmen elected him their political leader. He was also instrumental in getting Albania admitted to the League of Nations...
...Marechal Lyautey, since 1912 the French Resident-General in Morocco, is generally considered the most brilliant of France's colonial administrators. His diplomacy in extending French influence among the turbulent Rif tribesmen and at the Court of the Sultan at Rabat, as well as his military achievements in pacifying and extending the area under French control, stands in striking contrast to the British devolution of authority in Egypt and the Spanish military reverses in their own Moroccan...
...condition of Spanish morale is well indicated by the wholesale national endorsement at the recent pardoning, by the King, of soldiers who mutinied against going to Morocco. The military position of the Spanish troops continued last week, according to reports, " precarious " and subject to frequent raids from the tribesmen...
...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...
...violated. No rain had fallen for weeks, and it was held by them that he had caused the drought by offering her violence. His father, the chief of the tribe, consented to his son's death. When the case was tried in the government courts the tribesmen produced the rain goddess incarnated in a beautiful girl. She did not lower her dignity by speaking to mortals, and her henchmen were convicted...