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Show FRENCH FORCED TO RETREAT. Algeria Has Been Invaded by Arab Warriors from Morocco. Paris. Official advices received here from Oran, Algorla, declnro that a portion of tho Moroccan army Invaded In-vaded Algeria on Wednesday. Tho Fronch woro forced to retreat, and in tho fighting they lost eleven men killed and fifteen wounded. Later, however, they woro reinforced and succeeded in driving tho Arnbs back across tho frontier. Tho dlsastor hos suddenly awakened Franco to tho fact .that tho vpxlng Mo roccan problem, far from being Bet tied, has only assumed anothor por ploxlng phase. Although the troublt In western Morocco is now confined tc nntlvo strlfo botweon Abdul-El-Azlz tho sultnn of record, and Mulal Haflg tho sultan of tho Boufh, tho powerful Benls Nassen tribe has suddenly broken brok-en out in tho northeast, and oven dnr Ingly invnded tho French colony in Algeria, several thousand Arabs hav ing crossed tho frontier to attack th French at Bab-El-Rassa. |