KAID MACLEAN.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 26 July 1907, Page 2

KAID MACLEAN.

Raisuli, the famous bandit of Morocco, has exercised partieally a sovereign sway round Tangier for some time past. He was Governor of the district between Tangier and l.araiche. but the foreign ■ diplomatists in Tangier appealed last - year to th« Government of .Morocco for - his dismissal, and Fnro.-c and Spain each i sent loon additional Uuops to that coun- . try. Though Kaisuli concentrated his i forces and prepared for hostilities, he. : was deposed hy the Sultan, and a new governor was appointed. Deserted by the majority of his followers, he fled to the mountains. This is not the first attempt made lo take Kaid Maclean prisoncr for in .November, 11105. the Morocco_ tribesmen desperately endeavored to seize him He wore a tartan and kilt m a .1 ighhiml regiment before he entered the Moorish service, to beeonl conimamler-m.ehief of (he Sultan's forces, lorn i„ is., B , at Chatham, ,/,ero his father was senior to (he m,r----n the rt-.t 1, of V u „t in 1809. find served ,„ (he army in various parts ;, "v-r a .' ,M \ m] - t » w«, Une on a Msit to I angier, he was asked bv the hen llritfsl. Minister to Morocco Sir Drmnmond Hay, if he mmld [ he post of instructor to the Moorish toop.sU.e Sultan having asked (he Brii»h Mi.,,8 er (o find him an English -nicer tor that purpose. Maclean acceded < offer, and resigned his commission in lie Lritish army. 'The fi,. st , vo rk given ' the Sultan was the ordering ß "/" ' Jf'tol largo gnns. Kaid Maclean r" gin iom'" r 0f k " ig !' lhooa fmm thc the ilntish Government." !