MOROCCO.

Otago Witness, Issue 2857, 16 December 1908, Page 25

MOROCCO.

MOROCCO, December 11

Mohammed was momentarily proclaimed Sultan in the Rabat district. He was arrested and sentenced at Fez to perpetual confinement.

Though Mulai Hand demanded a sentence of death, the vigorous attitude of several chiefs saved Mohammed's life.

CAPABLAXCA INCIDENT

COPENHAGEN. December 13.

The Danish Conservative newspaper Vortland affirms that when the Casablanca incident? was^ at a critical stage two German cruisers entered the sound on the

night of the sth of November with their lights covered, and waited for wireless orders, whereby the forts of Copenhagen would have Wen seized had the FiancoGerman crisis aesunisd ft warlike aspect.

NEW YORK, December 8. President Roosevelt declares that it is infamous for American newspapers to assert that an American syndicate profited to tba extent of £5,000,000 from the £8,000,000 paid to France for the acquire- i ment of her rights in tKe Panama Canal. 1 Congress lias ordered an investigation i into the charge. j December 11. The New York Times, after examining ' the papers relating to the Panama Canal purchase, admits that they do not reveal that any money had been paid to an American. An eminent French engineer closely connected with the revival of the Panama project states that three millions of American money was paid to the new Panama Company and five millions to the shareholders of the old company. December 14. Mr Taft will visit the Panama Canal in January, hoping to counteract reports , of a disaster to the Gatun Dam, which , many believe, though they are officially denied.

-~«i . PERTH, December 11. There is a gale raging at Broome, and. a -number of pearling luggers are reported lost. Telegraphic communication is interrupted, and news is tent via Java. December 12. Later Teports from Broomo state that several pearling luggers are ashore at Ninety-mile Beach, but the crews are safe. Many vessels are still missing. It is hoped they are sheltering along the coast. Quantities of wreckage hav.s been washed ashore. December 14. Ottini? to the telegraph lines being still down, details of the Broom© pearling fleet disaster are coming in slowly. It is feaTed that many boats and a considerable number of lives were lost. Rubin and Davis's schooner and 17 i luggers, Goldstein's 21 lugigers, another , schooner, and 16 luggers are reported 1 m^ssinz. ' >?vubdn's schooner Bux is a total wreck.

The' captain reached the sfiore* after' bsing in the water 10 hours. - The body of Young (mate) and the bodies of a number of colouired men were washed afehore.

Tha storm is described as one of, the woi-st that ever struck tlia coast. It also did great danuaicye ashore, wrecking houses and telegraph lines. There is much wreckage, and thousands of dead seabirds scattered along the shore.

The Japanese survivors from Rubin's lugger Roy report that four of the coloured crew were drowned when she foundered. > *