Show MOORS CHASED BACK TO HilLS Allied French and Spanish Forces Make Sudden and andS Successful Move S FANATICS LOSE MANY MEN REPORT OF GENERAL DRUDE TO 4 4 M H J 9 M t M o M t 4 M M 4 M M 4 f Paris Sept Minister 4 today received the follow fellow 4 4 Ing dispatch from General Drude 4 4 commander of the French troops at 4 Casa Blanca tI I am pleased plea to notify you ou that 4 4 thanks to a land fog we have been 4 4 4 able to surprise th t e Moroccan camp campat f 4 at which was burned The 4 Moors were dispersed and fled to th the 4 hills followed by the tho shells shell of our 4 artillery and effective projectiles p 4 f from the On our side om o oman f 4 man was killed and six were wece wound wounded f 4 ed 4 Casa Blanca Wednesday Sept It The allied army today made madea a sudden and successful move on Tad dent ert where the Moors were massed In force orce The Time camp of the latter was de destro destroyed troyed ed by bombardment and the enemy was vas put to flight leaving many dead on n the feld feId The French lost one man killed and six wounded The attack was ws carefully planned and was based largely on the observations ns of f the Moors positions po from a military balloon The allied army which was dl III vided Into two columns left the camp at 6 in the morning leaving several companies of infantry to defend th the has bese at Casablanca The first t column was composed of four companies of regular in m infantry antry fantry several companies of oC o sharpshooters ers ens rs a battery of artillery and all the cavalry The second column consisted of or six Ix companies of infantry and a bat bet batery batten tery ten ery of artillery The march was ski fUlly ully carried out under the cover coer of a aos fog os until half way to wh when n nhe the he fog lifted and disclosed several large bands of or the enemy enem The allies then t en charged at the point of the bayonet and although the Moors resisted with tiled then courage they the were finally com corn complied compelled plied to retreat in the face of or a superior force orce and both of the columns of ot the allied troops advanced on a Advance of the Allies After the bombardment of that piece by the French artillery as well as ae by It th the guns gone of the French cruiser which fired Ired shells the allied in infantry Infantry fantry antry advanced on the Moorish camp where the enemy wad wa making a last desperate stand A short engagement fol followed followed lowed owed and the Moors fled in wild disorder pursued for several veral miles by the irregular Algerian cavalry in the French service The Moorish camp was oom de do destroyed d The exact jennet loss lose of the Moore is not known as they carried away many of t lr dead Whim the Moors Meon 1 saw their camp cam in names they s set t fire tire to an all the farms arms and woods they could reach and the tto sur sun surrounding surrounding rounding was covered with smoke moke and flames The Moors endeavored to circle rapidly In n front of the time advancing troops with the object of cutting off and surrounding a section Jn of the allied forces but the attempt utterly failed largely on of or the rapid advance which seemed to puzzle th the Moors When assailed from froma froma a long line Une of troops the Moors re repeated retreated retreated treated from the front where many mans of or them fell under the accurate fire of the field artillery and the guns of the |