ABDICATED SULTAN.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1553, 24 September 1912, Page 6

ABDICATED SULTAN.

MTJLAI HAFID'S FIRST VOYAGE WITH A TRAIN OF SLAVES. ' Mulai Ha fid, tho ex-Sultan of Morocco, who on account of his nerves abdicated in favour of his young brother, Mulai Ynssif, arrived- at Marseilles on August 15 in tho English steamer Macedonia on his way to Vichy, to take a cure. The arrival of the retiring despot, with his retinue of fifteen slaves and twelve attendants, provided a spectacle gratifying to the Frenchman's-tasto for the curious. The Prefect, of the Department, with the Governor of Marseilles and a representative of the Foreign Ministry, went nn board to greet, him. Mulai Hafid received them lounging in a deck-chair and dressed iu a white silk burnous (complete wrap). He seemed to have borne the first sea journey well, and it was noticed that he has so far modified his manner on the democratic model as to shake hands with his visitors—a familiarity which he never permitted as Monarch. Among his personal attendants is on» whose duly it is to light the ex-Sultan's fragTanf cigarettes and to take a whiff ot them himself before handing them to his master. There is another who is responsible for the Sultan's religious ablutions, which he is supposed to perform five times a day. AfUr being taken for, a motor-car drive tho ex-Su!tan expressed a desire to go to a music hall.