RISING IN MOROCCO.

Otago Witness, Issue 2985, 31 May 1911, Page 30

RISING IN MOROCCO.

RELIEF COLUMN REACHES FEZ. HOLY WAR PROCLAIMED. TANGIER, May 23. As the relief column approaches Fez the tribesmen are quieter, some of them retiring. Portion of the Sherada tribesmen have submitted. G'eineral Monier's column entered Fez without firing a shot. All the inhabitants are safe. May 27. The Pretender was mortally wounded in the stomach in a fight with Mulai Hand's troops. The Sherarda tribe has consequently submitted. General Gourand, who was a three days' march behind General Monier, had a sharp fight with the rebels, wherein 125 of the latter were killed. May 29. An Englishman who is accompanying the Moorish forces under Elmerasi to halfway between Fez and Rabat, writes that the rebels have hemmed in the column, whose cavalry detachments they twice defeated. The mountaineers have raised a Holy War and are fighting with fanatical fury owing to the presence of five French officers. Four correspondents are with the column. FEZ, May 26. The rebels have withdrawn in the direction of Mequinez. The war correspondents advise that M order's .advance guard entered Fez unmolested. PARIS, May 29. The Matin states that Muilai Hafid has conferred with M. Monis (the Premier). The Sultan docs not wish the French to leave Fez, and intends to accompany them if they return to the coast. He has asked for the establishment of a French Protectorate.