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Show 1P1'5 FORCE C!l MOOR FRONT LOSESHEAVILY Moroccans at Tifermia Equipped With Modern Y Arms Offer Sanguinary Battle XsiX ARE KILLED IN GERMAN RIOTS Dozen Others Dangerously Dangerous-ly Wounded m Fighting at Dattetn, Westphalia Between Reds and Police -MADRID. Aug. . II. Spain has lost 140 men la one of the moat sanguinary battles of th Moroccan Moroc-can war at Tifermia, according to private message received her from Morocco. Tha firing I continuing con-tinuing along th entire battle front. To th right and left of th battle Una th Spaniards ar holding hold-ing their ground against th attack at-tack of tha . Moor, wha ar equipped with the latest modern -arms, but the center of the Spanish Span-ish front I loelng ground. The commanding general, wha arrived at the battle line, according to the Spanish undersecretary of war, said K Is ' doubtful whether ths Spanish troops will bs able to hold the ground, aa the conditions under which they ar fighting ar extremely bad. "" 'For soms time psst." ths under-ureretery under-ureretery said, "ths enemy has In-rased In-rased his pressure on ' our ad-yCm-ed positions, culminating yes-y4"rdnytn yes-y4"rdnytn the -cutting of eommunl-csti eommunl-csti with Farj a. - The com- mending general dispatched a com- poslte regiment of Infantry, foreign for-eign legionnaires and engineer to reestablish the communications. The. Spanish forces dislodged the ,.ci:ray sfter sanguinary hand-to-S h"nd fighting which caueed hea.y Spanish casualties. Th Third bat-. Villon Inst moat of Its officer and Rrty soldiers wsr killed." . - ' ' . . tVOTINO RENEWED AS MEETING HALTED " BEKtlN. Aug. II. At leaet six persons were killed and more than a' dosen dsngsrously wounded' today to-day In conflicts between communists commu-nists nd polle In tha Ruhr.' At Datteln, Westphalia, where severe rioting occurred yestsrday, there wss renewed fighting when police charged a communist meeting meet-ing In the center of tha city, which wss called as a protest against ths . arrest of th leaders of yeeterday-s communist outbreak. |