SHELLED BY TROOPS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3254, 27 June 1911, Page 2

SHELLED BY TROOPS.

VICTORY OVER REBELLIOUS PIGS

The ludicrous adventures of some Spanish troops in Morocco have caused general . laughter, wherever the facts have been made known. A few days ago a report reached the Spanish consul at Tangier from the commander of a body of Spanish troops to tlie effect that an attack on the troops by the An j era Moors had been brilliantly repulsed, and that the Moors lost six killed. The fight became known as a “glorious victory” for Spain. It lias now been learned that the Anjera Moors did not attack the Spanish troops, but that a drove of 500 pigs was mistaken for the enemy in the night, and were attacked. It appears that a man in charge of the pigs had moved them to a new feeding ground on the approach of the Spanish troops. This new ground did not suit the pigs, and during the following night they struck out through woods and rough country towards their old familiar ground. The commotion they caused as the five hundred moved in a body alarmed the Spaniards, who feared that the Anjera Moors were upon them in the darkness. The troops poured volleys into the supposed advancing enemy, and the artillery shelled the foe.

The pigs turned back again, and the Spanish troops retired to camp under the impression that a night attack had been repulsed. At once a report was sent to the consul that a great victory had been won, and the dead were estimated at six!