MOROCCO.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 94, 14 January 1908, Page 5

MOROCCO.

THE PRETENDER HEADS A HOLY fAB. POWERS SHOULD UNITE. 11AJ3AT HOSTILE TO THE SULTAN. Br WEonAPit—riiEsS assoC'jation'—coriEiani (ftedi Jari> 13) 10.27 p.m.y ■ -, . . Morocco, (Jmiliary 13<' The deposition of Abdui-Aziz (the.'Sultan) and tho proclamation of Mulai-Hafid (t,h". Pretender) at i'.'ez is the otitbbmo of a Nationalist movement' duo to Abdul-Aziz ask* ihg the lllcrtia of Fez to sanction tho iie9p ,6f Christian tfoOpS'- in reasserting hl'il authority. - * 1 ■ ■ ■ . Rabat is/ in the . hands bf J.'Abdlil-Afc!/.;' Ev'Oil. there the population is hostile to liinn General fia.hiato (wlib recently succeeded General DrtUlo ill tjbnihia'iid of thb French advancing; tbWaMs Italjat pro* t-ebt tlio Spanish, mission • aiid European, residents. ' ; ■ London, January 13. ' i'he Times Paris correspondent asserts that there is a oonSenSus of opinion that the action of MulaMlafid ill permitting a St-V- 1 / War against all Europeans shotijd impel the Powers ta' suppotit Abdiil-Aziz,> Wlio is .iiltce ' for Europe in tho execution' of ■ tho Convention Under t-llb Act bf Algeciras. . -'Evidently. 'the' ' Pttteflder, • despairing:' of European; help, and also of European neutrality;.,, fiaS invbKed religion, has pi'flelaihieu ft Holy Wftf ttßalnst tile itifldels Who espouse tile SiiUun's 6EiVibo. A Morbecnr eiibiCeraiii of December 10 statedi "ilulfii HafUl, the Pre« tender, -appeals. tothe French .-hot to Interfere -jn the struggle for the throne between Uic Sultan . (bis hhlf-brothcr) and himself t otherwise, -ft;, 'Holy .War against 'foreigners. id inevitable."' >.' ■ ,