MOROCCO.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 285, 26 August 1908, Page 7

MOROCCO.

A SOVEREIGN IN ADVERSITY, ABDUL AZIZ. DEFEATED AND ALMOST DESERTED. (Nx TELEGttArn—rBESS ASSOCIATION-COrittUHT,) London, August 24. After tho overthrow of tho troops of the Sultan, Abdul Aziz, by the forcos of his linlfbrothor and rival, Jlulai Ilafid, almost the only men who did not desert Abdul Aziz were a French military service surgeon (Dr, Verdon) nnd Sergeant Balding. Those assisted Abdul to find refuge with the Frenoh outposts at Settot, Franco will not recogniso Mulai Hafid until he accepts the terms of the Algeciras Convention. Meanwhile, Franco and Spain will continue their policing duties. IERMS Or THE AGREEMENT. The Algeciras Agroemont, arrived at by tho Powers jn 1906, includes(l) A declaration relating to the orgmisatii-n of a police force o f 20Q0 to 2500, which is to be recruited by the A[agh?3.i from among Moorish commanded by Itaids, and distributed among the eight ports; Spanish and French instructors, officers and non-commissioned officers are In assist the Sultan in tho organisation for five vpi-rfi, subjeot to the control of an InspectorGeneral selected from the Swiss Army by the gwiss Inderal Government. The instructors nn.l officers are to be Spanish at Tetuan and Larache, mixed at Tangier and Casablanca, and French at Rabat and the other ports. (2) A declaration as to tho suppression of the contraband trade in arms; (3) a concession for aStato Panic for 40 years, worked' by censors appointed by the Bauk of France, England, and Spain, and the Imperial Banlc of Germany; (4) a scheme for improved collection of taxes and the creation of new sources of vevenuo by means of specified duties; (5) relations as to Customs duties, etc, with a proviso that on tho frontier of Algeria the regulation should bo the exclusive affair of Franco and Morocco, and similarly of Spain and Morocco in the Rif country; (G) a recognition of tho principle of economic freedom and the non-alienation of public M'rvices and public works. SULTAN DE FACTO. A QUESTION OF RECOGNITION. (Rec. August 25, 10.40 p.m.) London, August 25. Tho foreign diplomatists at Tangier have inquired their Governments' instructions regarding tho recognition of Mulai.

ABDUL AND HIS CONQUEROR, . The defeated Sultan Abdul Aziz (Hulai-Abd. el-Azil, to bo strictly correct) is the fifteenth of the dynasty of the Alides, founded by Jlulai-Ahmed, and the thirty-sixth lineal descendant of Ali, uncle and son-in-law of the Prophet. His four predecessors wero the Sultana Mulai-Soliman (1794-1822), Mulai-Abderrah-jnan (1822-1859),- Sidi-Mulai-Mohamed (1859-1873), and Mulai-Hassan (1873-1894). Son of tho lastnamed, Abdul Aziz became Sultan on June 7, 1891. He was born on February 24, 1878, nnd is two or three years younger than Mulai Hafid, his half-brother and enemy. Prince Hassan, son of Abdul Aziz, was born in July, 1899, Abdul Aziz is generally admitted to T)e weak and lacking 'in energy; even Kaid Maclean admits his "easy good nature." Mulai Hand has been described as having a grave, resolute face; eyes largo, nososlightly aquiline, beaTd short and well-trimmed. Ho is said to be a foe to the European extravagance to which Abdul Aziz fell too easily a victim. At the same time his admirers say he is no anti-European fanatic, and has oven allowed a European doctor to attend one of his favourite wivos.