A Heavy Task: Offensive Impossible Before Rains Tangier, Aug. 29.
Interviewed on board his steamer en route for Paris, General Lyautey is reported as having said that the recent operations against the Branes were more severe than anticipated owing to the presence among them of large numbers of Rifi regular troops. He added that an examination of the situation after a visit to the front had convinced him of the impossibility of a general offensive before the rainy seas An official comins announces the term tions in the country of the Branes, who are expected to submit shortly.
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