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Show I: MOORS START A FIGHTi ARE BEATEN K FRENCH j Engagement Lasted Four Hours, the j Moors Finally Being Routed, Leav- ; Ing Their Dead on the Field. Psirln. OHlclal reports of the fighting fight-ing near Oudjii (tny tlint a Moorish raiding party, consisting of 100 horse- 1 moil, was threatening tin Angnd tribesmen wild worn camped nnrtli-went nnrtli-went (if Oudja, on ncrotint of tlio lat-ter's lat-ter's friendliness towards tlio French. A French roliiinn was sent to protect the Angnds and dispatched emissaries In advance to ascertain tlio Intention of the hostile horsemen. The latter Insulted tho emissaries. Whllo some rf tho Moors still nogotlntod with the emissaries, who consisted of n fuw irregular ir-regular cavalrymen, u sliot was fired nt the SpahlB, who replied, driving the floors to refuge hnlilnd tho Gorbal hill. Suddenly a crossfire was opened on the French troops, nnd n rcgulnr on gngoniont followed, last Ins four hours, nt the end or which the .Moors wuro completely defeated They left a number num-ber of dead on tho Held. |