RAISULI, THE BRIGAND

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1685, 15 June 1904, Page 21

RAISULI, THE BRIGAND

NEW YORK, June' 1.

The Americans talk of occupying the Moroccan port and impounding the Customs until the millionaire prisoner who was captured by bandits is released. LONDON, June 7. The battleship Prince of Wales has been ordered to Tangier. It is reported that the French squadron lias also been ordered thither. LONDON, June 8. Mr Perdicaris, the American millionaire. held captive by brigands, is ill. and efforts are being made to obtain safe conduct for a doctor to visit him. The "Daily Chronicle” gives thrilling details of the Raisuli incident. Two hundred armed Moors suddenly invaded Mr Peridicaris’s house, and kidnapped him and Mr Varley, his son-in-law, to fhe great terror of their wives and Miss Varley. The three women were finally spared abduction. Armed Moors entered an Englishman’s house in Tangiers in the daytime. The Englishman was absent, and his wife was compelled to surrender two- rifles. The English Consul demands the arrest of the Moors. The authorities hesitate, because the ringleader is influential among the Anjera' tribe. LONDON, June 9. A t the instance of the American Con-sul-General Amerman marines have landed to guard the Belgian Legation at Tangier. The. American Secretary of State, Colonel John Hay, justifies this step on the ground of international comity—one Power protecting the interests of another in the absence of warships. The Sultan of Morocco has agreed tt 1 the demands of Raisuli the brigandleader, whose party holds an American millionaire and his son-in-law in bondage, demanding a heavy ransom. Raisuli asks that Britain and America

( v-hall guarantee the Sultan’s promises. 'This America declines to do. The Sultan has appointed Herid Barrad a, Raisuli’s nominee, as Governor of Tangier. [Raisuli’s demands were the Governorship of liis province and an indemnity of fourteen thousand pounds for the 1 Government’s recent attack on his village.]