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First, marched 20 fierce Riffian guards, armed hip and thigh.
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While Captain Canning dickered behind closed doors with M. Ponsot, the French Undersecretary for African affairs, pressmen drew from other English-born officers of the Riffian delegation many picturesque details anent the Riff: English Officers.
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Comparatively peaceful, comparatively uneventful were the week's developments on the Riffian front in Morocco.
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Several chieftains who had gone over to the Riffian leader were alleged to have offered to return, help fight the Riffians, if only the French would pardon them, grant them arms and munitions.
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A Riffian sauntered by with an indifferent air, his silver-mounted gun upon his back, a pair of pistols in his belt, and a great coarse tail of hair swinging between his shoulders.
From Miranda of the Balcony A Story by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodle) Mason
The Riffians had advanced along a hundred mile front to the River Vergha on the east.
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Mules from Missouri also helped to fight the Riffians.
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Several chieftains who had gone over to the Riffian leader were alleged to have offered to return, help fight the Riffians, if only the French would pardon them, grant them arms and munitions.
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Two flanking movements starting from opposite ends of a 45-kilometer front induced the Riffians to flee, leaving the Tsoul tribe alone to oppose the French.
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Thus they linked up with their allies the French forces, which have advanced into that region from Kifane, and apparently the Spanish thrust came as a complete surprise to both French and Riffians.
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