MOROCCAN DANGER.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 7688, 24 April 1903, Page 2

MOROCCAN DANGER.

: i ATTEMPTS TO DISCREDIT THE WELL-MEANING SULTAN. A most interesting letter has been furnished the " Daily Mail," written by a gentlepan in Tangier, who has travelled in Morocco. He asserts that the coast ports are oc*u- j pied by Continental scum, which has Worked .hard to bring about European, intervention. The Sultan has liberal ideas, with a determination to bring his country up to date. Naturally, he has made a few mis,takes, but the Continental scum referred to has raised the cry of n Discredit the Sultan and his Government. He is no good. Give him a few mechanical toys to play with ; that is all he is fit for. He likes Christians. Was not hia mother a Circassian:? Ho drinks ; look at the liquor he has sent up to Fez." .All this has been rubbed' into the Moors from one end of the country to the other. He is now discredited. " Wasn't the shooting of the sheik for killing a missionary proof," said these individuals, "that the Bultan did not care a rap for his peopl6?7 j " I am thankful, however," adds the writer, "to say that -the British work in this direction was conspicuous by its absence, and that accounts a good deal for the Sultan's partiality to the English. The Moors have now been worked up by such methods to dislike their Sultan, and axe in consequence ready for anything that may turn up. If the Sultan does go, the interior will be closed to Europeans."