FRENCH AND MOORS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1143, 2 June 1911, Page 5

FRENCH AND MOORS.

PRISONERS SOLD AS SLAVES. By TelcEraoli—l'rcss Association-Oopyrient | (Rcc. June 1, 9.5 p.m.) Tangier, Juno 1. On the evening 'after the arrival of the French column at Fez a detachment of the Moorish garrison, under the officers of the French military mission in Morocco, destroyed I.cmta, a suburb of Fez. The Sherco'fian troops burned the houses and killed n number of the inhabitants, dispersing the rest. Eighty Lemta women and children were afterwards sold into slavery in the Fez market, nt prices ranging from a dollar to forty dollars. Tlio native papers bitterly protest that the Maghzen, or Moorish Ministry, and the Europeans had previously promised the tribes immunity. General Monier, the French Comraan-der-iii-Chief, has had a further conference with Mulai ITafid, who asks that p-, French troops may remain to garrison Fez, and that a similar number shall 1» stationed at Mekinez. The Sultan declares that the. withdrawal of the French force will be the signal for a revolution. It is certain that neither the Europeans nor the Sultan will remain when the French leave. Colonel Gourand's column, with General Dalbiez's column, which went from Fez to assist Colonel Gournnd, reached Fez i'on May 26, after heavy fighting.