MOROCCO.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 8031, 8 June 1904, Page 2

MOROCCO.

PROPOSED AMBBIOAJi" ACTIQSV U United Press Association — By^Eloe^o; Telegraph— Copyright. (Received June 8, 9.7 a.m.) N&W YORK, JiMje 7, : The battleship JUmoja haa bee© ordeie^ to join th© American squgdroa ifl: Enrop«w ■/- Tlxe Americans tali of oocupj«ing a Mproo- - can port and impoundiug tihe Customs tmti^ thf millionaire prisoner has been. i«ieaeed. (On May 20 news was received that th# notodous pandit (Raisuli fead capfciired afc Tapgier an Asoerican miilionaiie, name<i . Perdicaris, *»d Mr Yarlev, (his British; >on- ." in-law, and demanded a heavy ransom and> slso the release of several imprisoned bani' dits. Britain and America insisted that fcaa . ■';'. Sultan should accept Raismli's tej»n«. Oa May 29 President Roosevelt and Mr John Hay, Secretary of State, decided thet it ; ':■'■ was inipo3sible to force -the Sultan, to accede : to Raisnii's terms, wihicii, in addition to an. indemnity and ransom,' iijcluded a demand that the Sultan ' should' MitMiaw his. forces , ', from tie Tangier province, leaving Raisuli to control the district. Four Amjericaiß crhisers and two gunboats are propeedinff to ; . Tangi«ri. * A still later message Raid Ihafc Raisuli threatened to murder Mr Perdicaris arid Mr Varley unless they wer^ ransoijnedi Mr John Haj, .United: States Secretary of State, was inclined to ask f<w French/ aadj. British intervention.)