Show liuo UD SPANISH MY IMY RETREATS fORE M RS Withdrawal Is Made Over gad x ad d Profanely Charac- Charac a r by Officer as Twelve Miles of Hell t By WEBB WEBS MILLER Cop Copyright 1924 by United Press I WEN BEN Spanish Mocco Mo- Mo Moc c cco O B By Courier to Gibraltar J fonday da Dec S. S I 8 Retreat of ot the oud d armies of Spain before the tte tO age tage robe robed tribesmen of Abdul rim Is under way General G Primo Rivera head of he military ry government t rh iq came to Morocco in p person parson to the withdrawal withdraw ll of life his 1 troops has started one of ot the most perilous phases of the consolidation consolidation consolidation con con- I of lines he determined upon when It became apparent Spain no longer could afford to occupy all aU her Moroccan domain asa against the rebellious natives It Is a task of all but in insurmountable insurmountable u- u mountable difficulties for men must be hN brought In safety along llong a single tortuous m mountain in trail I HORRORS S F. 9 F. F PERDITION Every ery inch of the way is contested contested contested con con- tested bitterly b lay by the Moors There Is continual sniping from the I mountainsides and torrential rains have added to the discomfort of I I Spain The retreat is sloshing through a morass of sticky slippery slip slip- slip slip-I pery pery clay mules falling and dying beside the trail cursing troops clogging under full equipment fighting marching and then fighting and marching again For a fortnight the main body of ot the armies of ot Spain have been mobilized around Zoco en enduring enduring en- en I during the horrors of ot perdition I Primo Rivera a grim determIned determined determined deter deter- mined man planned his withdrawal with with- with with-I well Small SmaIl contingents protected by airplanes started down the mountain trail The planes darted from hillside to hillside hill hill- hillside side Ride to bomb the groups of Moor I guerrillas constantly harassing the march GRUELLING RETREAT The United States correspondent was permitted to witness the wIthdrawal withdrawal withdrawal with wIth- from a point ten miles south of Tetuan the Tetuan-the the focal point of ot the withdrawal from Zoco which Is only twelve miles farther south i But it Is twelve e miles of at hell as a a. young officer said profanely Twel Twelve miles mlles over which scores of tons of supplies thousands of ot I Imen men huge guns herds of livestock and all the litter that goes with an army on the move must be bo transported transported transported trans trans- an ported with order and precision It will be days before the withdrawal withdrawal with with- dra wal to Ben can be complete I |