Word: ouezzan
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...After a heavy bombardment, the French advanced to new positions north of Ouezzan and along the Taza front. Meanwhile French airplanes bombed Tarquist, Krim's onetime stronghold. 3) The Spanish fleet continued to steam up and down the Riffian coast, pot-shotted...
Operations amid the rain-soaked sloughs of Riffland (TIME, Nov. 16 et ante) were featured recently by the surrender of 800 tribal families to the French, in the region of Ouezzan, northwest of Fez. French communiques stated that the power of Abd-el-Krim, dauntless Riffian leader, is rapidly waning, as the Semadjas and other powerful tribes are submitting to the French. In the New Republic, U. S. weekly review, Poet Witter Bynner* wrote as follows...