Word: moros
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...mopping up took place a year ago, another minor one last winter. Last week 200 of the constabulary under two white officers undertook the destruction of the Moro strongholds in the hills of Mindanao. There were three days of continuous fighting and five forts fell. Of the Moros 50 were killed; of the constabulary five were killed and 17 wounded...
...banquet of welcome" to Joseph Caillaux,* whose financial genius has, in years past, won nation-wide repute. Two thousand radical and socialist persons were present. Premier Herriot did not attend but, said M. Paul Painlevé, Président de la Chambre, "he is here in spirit." Presently there entered Maitre Moro-Giafferi, the famed French lawyer who defended Caillaux before the Senate when he was condemned to exile for endangering the alliances of France in 1919. He whooped a cry of delight at seeing his old friend and client, rushed at him, clasped him in his arms, pressed...
...basis lies old antipathy between Moros and Christian Filipinos, and the objection of the former to being governed locally by the latter. This is the principal basic cause of unrest in the Moro Provinces. The Mohammedan period of religious devotion, which lasts from now until the tenth of the new moon, has served to accentuate the situation...
...that which India presents to Great Britain. In 1899, not long after the Patriots' League demonstration of 1896, which resulted in the overthrow of the usurper, Aguinaldo, President McKinley appointed a commission to investigate conditions in the Philippines. They reported a lack of education and "linguistic diversities," plus a Moro element, a small but violent portion of the total population which professed the Mohammedan religion in opposition to the Catholic...
...stirring reunion of Monarchists occurred at Nuremburg, Bavaria, on the anniversary of Sedan Day. Moro than 200,000 veterans took part in a parade through the town. The feature of the significant gathering was a powerful, moving and emotional speech made by a Catholic priest. In conclusion he said: " I ask you Germans, are you ready to take a triple oath for Germany...