MULAI HAFID.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 540, 22 June 1909, Page 5

MULAI HAFID.

INSECURE ON HIS BROTHER'S THRONE. ,- J HIS TROOPS ROUTED. THE; OLD PRETENDER, AGAIN ACTIVE. ■ (By. Telegraph^Press: Association.—Copyright.) '', : ;; ,A(Rec. June 21, 10.80 p.m.).-; Aγ , , '' ,: . :' ; Morocco, Juno 21. : The■;Roghi's- mehalla completely, defeated Ourd. Mohammod Chorgui's Sheroefian mefrom ,?ez. 'A thousand gitives havo preached , Fez, ,;.'. -y '"'■■• .' , Mnlai Hafid,. who lost year ascended the : thrbno asi tho result: of -revolution that dethroned Abdul ..Aziz, has quarrelled . with ;hi3; powerful 'Viziors El Glavi and Aissa Ben Omar, who placed him on the,throne. Muiai's po'sitioniis'weakqniiig. : \ A;A ROLE OF-f HE 'ROGHL ./i '■, .-, There are several-Pretenders to the.Moroccan throne, and tho Roghi is "one of-the oldest of them,'if not the oldest. He claims to be Mnlai Mohammefl, the elder brother of the : deposed 'Abdul Aziz, When Mulai /Hafid, half-brother' of,Abdul Azw.'wasfightijigfor'the throne last year, the Roghi was visited by several,emissaries from Mulai-Hafid trying to-induce him to ■join; in the letter's causo: But tho -Eoghi appears to have maintained a waiting game,-while koeping his own position intaot.: According to pno.account, he was "repressing' 'the. warlike ardour of his followers on' theground that, the moment.for ; 'action.Has not yet come.> The different rumonrs in circulation seem to show that ho is temporising land seeking to increase, his far as possible." And now, ap'-' parently, the "niomonf for action" . has arrived.'-. A ■■■■■:-,.\ '■■■:■:■■.'--.:. :■ ':..- ; ' : A ':'-.