AFFAIRS IN MOROCCO

Colonist, Volume XLIX, Issue 12019, 21 August 1907, Page 3

AFFAIRS IN MOROCCO

Morocoo, August 19. A faction of Moorish mendicants approached the French encampment at Casablanca, and attempted to seize arms and animunitfon. Sixteen were killed, besides one who was compelled to dig his own grave for refusing to answer questions. Reoeived, August 20, 10.40 p.m. Morocco, August 20.

Five thousand Kabyle horsemen sharply attacked the French troops commanded by General Drude on Sunday from seven in the morning until eleven, when they were repulsed. The tribesmen displayed remarkable courage, charging within three hundred yards of the French infantry and also engaging the Algerian ;caValry in a hand to hand encounter with sabres. Once they ambuscaded a party of fifty Spatns but reinforcements extricated the French who finally outflanked the Moors who retreated. Two Frenchmen were killed and three wounded. The warship Gloire, from the Say, effectively shelled the tribesmen, who lost 100. The. Sultan is willing to guarantee the life and property of foreign residents of Fez if the French troops confine their operations to the immediate neighbourhood of CasSblanca.

Raisuli offers to withdraw from public life if France and Britain guarantee" his life. Paris, Auguts 20. General Drude telegraphs that the attack was extremely serious. Received August 20; 11.6 p.m; "~^_ London, August 20. The "Daily Mail" states that Kaid Sir Harry Maclean was to be surrendered to Elinarani, the Sultan's uncle, on Monday, and would be reaching Alcazar to-day.