REBELS RETREATING.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXIII, Issue 9980, 4 May 1911, Page 5

REBELS RETREATING.

TANGIER, Wednesday

The Benihausen rebels, hearing that the relieving column was approaching, have returned homewards.

They drove off many Sherada cattle Inter-tribal lighting followed.

Fez, which is in such sore straits, is situated about 130 miles south of the Straits of Gibraltar, in a vaUey surrounded by high hills. The city lies on both banks of a tributary of the Sebu, which divides it into the two parts of Fez-el-Bali (the old town) and Fez-el-.Tedid. It. is a very ill-built town, with narrow, filthy streets, with no sanitary arrangements, which, together with a humid climate and an inadequate water supply, make it most uuhealthful. In its flourishing days Fez had about 1)0,000 dwelling house and 800 mosques. Of the laiter only about 130 are left. Of these the most important are MuloyEdris, containing thn tomb of Edris 11. (the reputed founder of Fez), aud Jama-Karnbin, ro which is attached one of the highest educational institutions of the Mohammedan world, and which coutains a large library of Arabian works on theology. Fez has also a number of minor schools, and is still regarded as an important educational centre The industries are considerable, the products including leather, rugs, shawls of silk, and the red Fez caps. In point of commerce Fez is the most important city of north •western Africa. It is the distributing centre for European products from Marseilles and London, while its caravans travel as far as Timbuktu.