The Archive · 1925

Airmen Die Fighting

Madrid, Oct. 2.

Aa a result of their recent suc-esses, the Spanish forces occupy territory on the Alhucemas sector bout 12 miles square. The Span-ards are occupying heights above Adjir, and look down on the stronghold of the redoubtable Beni-Ur-Ringhel tribe, where dwellings hitheto regarded as impregnable and inviolate are now on fire, constitute ing the funeral pyre of a bogey Which has for so long menaced the Spanish garrison on the island of Alhucemas.

Oct, 3.

It is announced that after careful reconnaissance the Spani have entered Adjir and occupied a number of other positions. The dislodged enemy abandoned a large quantity of material, and their reported to have been considerable.

The newspapers are ecstatic over the capture of Abd-d-Ki hold, which for so long has been nightmare. They declare that Abd-@l-Krim is now cut off from the sea and, from the fertile lands surround. Ang Adjir, from the Gsis to the Mekor rivers, and that he will be compelled to take refuge in mount. ain fastnesses, where he will lea precarious existence, having more reason to fear his allies than his enemies.

The Spaniards have already em-laced long-range guns on the allman ridge and are building an facrodrone at Morronuevo,

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