FIGHTING IN MOROCCO.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1503, 27 July 1912, Page 5

FIGHTING IN MOROCCO.

FRENCH BOAIBARD A VILLAGE. By Tolosrasli-Prcss Aesociation-CoDyrizlit Tangier, July 25. Owinjj to attacks on a French cruiser, ami also the "hostile gatherings of tribes southwards of llogador, the French troops bombarded (livolliiijfs of brigond tribes at Ui'.smi, ,i suburb of .Ag-ailir.

THE SOUTHERN PKOTKXDF.R, Some account of tho Southern Pretender to tho fliroiio of .Morocco, tho cati=e of muck of the present unrest, was given recently by a correspondent of the "Miinciieslor (.iuimlinii," who wrote as follows from Mogador on Hay 20:— '\\e havo barely mustered the story of tho ±ra massacre und tho occupation of that cuy by a French army corps, when a surprise conms from tho .south. It now seems certain that tho rumours current a lew days since are in substance correct. A son of the lato redoubtable Sahara cliieitam, Ma-ul-Ainin, has taken possession of Tiznit, mid proclaimed himself bultan of tho vast region extending from the slopes of the Great Atlas range to the Western. Sudan. He appears to have captured the sympathies of a large number of the trilt'S by voicing the universal opposition to the Protectorate, and by declaring himself to 1)3 the Heaven-sent organiser of Holy War. His followers a.ssuro us that, ho and thoso under his command arc invulnerable to the artillery of the infidel, and that ho is to found a new dynasty, the one object of which will be to lestore tile ancient principles and glories of Islam.

"Tho advent of this latest claimant to sovereign power is a serious matter, lie has chosen the psychological moment, for his enterprise. To say that Mulai Hafid, by liis submission to France, has lost tho loyalty of his people is to state the case much too moderately. His projected visit to Paris must inevitably sever the last link between him and his subjects. Tho government of tho Sus provinces, Iho richest in all Morocco, has already slipped from tho hands of the Maghzen, and no effort has hitherto been made by the Sultan, or by France to recover control. It is now too late, except at the cost of a eerious campaign, or of several campaigns. The territory ruled by tho new Sultan, covers an area, roughly speaking, of some 10,000 square miles—not much, perhaps, from an 'imperial , point of view, but quite largo enough to afford lively occupation for a European army corps for several months."