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...police power to Moroccans, concentrating his 100,000 troops in the openly rebellious regions of the North. Neither 20,000 Moroccan militiamen nor the private guard forces of nationalist political parties were enough to keep order. One week's incidents in Morocco: Taza, a town in the Atlas foothills, paid with his life for being overargumentative with a pistol-packing Frenchman. In retaliation, a mob of Moroccans besieged the police station and beat a French officer to death. ¶ Armed rebels from across the border in Spanish Morocco, summoned by hilltop bonfires, captured four...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MOROCCO: Order First | 12/5/1955 | See Source »

Died. Prince Aage of Denmark, 52, veteran officer in the French Foreign Legion; after brief illness; in Taza, French Morocco. Cousin of King George V, Tsar Nicholas II, King Christian X of Denmark, King Haakon VII of Norway, King Constantine of Greece, he renounced his rights to the Danish throne when he was 26. Said he then: "It wasn't such a sacrifice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 11, 1940 | 3/11/1940 | See Source »

Last week General Freydenberg assembled his staff at the frontier post of Taza. issued an Order of the Day relinquishing his command, announcing his recall to France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MOROCCO: Red-Head Recalled | 7/8/1929 | See Source »

Formal Surrender. At Camp Giradot, near Taza, Mohammed ben Abd-El-Krim performed the official gesture of laying down his arms. A minimum of ceremony was observed by the French, since Spain has long exerted pressure to have the upstart "Sultan" treated as a mere tribal chief upon his surrender. General Boichut resolved this situation with great tact, announced that he had sprained his ankle, sent a group of subordinate officers to receive the sword of Krim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Moroccan War Ends | 6/7/1926 | See Source »

...correspondents at Taza, Krim said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Moroccan War Ends | 6/7/1926 | See Source »

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