CAIRO: According to reports reaching Cairo, French planes bombed the Moroccan towns of Talda and Keser to suppress an anti-French revolt which broke out today [March 2]. …

A country-wide rebellion was also reported to have broken out against the pro-French tribal chief Ollawi Pasha. French inhabitants were co-operating with French troops to put down the rebellion, these reports said. According to a New York message the Committee for Freedom of North Africa said today it received word of a battle between French colonial troops and Arab Nationalists in French Morocco today. — News agencies

[Meanwhile, according to a report from Gujrat,] Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan said here today [March2] that the Muslim League Party … would see that all the … fundamental needs of every person … were fully satisfied. He arrived here … on the second leg of his electioneering campaign. … Addressing a huge gathering in Pakistan Gardens, Gujrat, [he] emphasised that … if the poor continued to support the organisation which got them Pakistan there was no reason why that organisation should fail to fulfil other promises.

Published in Dawn, March 3rd, 2026