KAID MACLEAN’S CAPTIVITY.
United Press Association —Copyright
LONDON, July 25,
The Daily Mail states that Raisuli compelled all his retainers to withdraw from / Raid Mac Lean s camp ; the position becoming dangerous.
Received July 26, 10.25 p.m. MOROCCO, July 26. Raisuli declares that if the tribesmen at the Sultan’s command attack him be null kill Mac Lean.
Raisuli, the famous bandit of Morocco, has exercised practically a sovereign sway round Tangier for some time past. He was Governor of the district between Tangier and Laraiehe, but the foreign diplomats in Tangier appealed last year to the Government of Morocco for his dismissal, and France and Spain each sent 1000 additional troops to that country. Though Raisuli concentrated his forces and prepared for hostilities, he was deposed by the Sultan, an! a new Governor was appointed. Deserted by the majority of his followers he fled to the mountains. This is not the first- attempt made to take Kaic' Mac Lean prisoner, for in November, 1905, the Morocco tribesmen desperately endeavored to seize him. He wore a tartan and kilt in a Highland regiment before he entered the Moorish service, to become comman-der-in-chief of the Sultan’s forces. Born in TB4B, at Chatham, where his father was senior surgeon to the garrison hospital, he obtained a commission in the 69tli Regiment of Foot in 1869, and served in the army in various parts of the world till 1876. In IB7G, while on a visit to Tangier, he was asked by the then British Minister to Morocco,Sir Drummond Hay, if he yvould accept the post of instructor to the Moorish troops, the Sultan haying asked the British Minister to find him an English officer for that purpose. Mac Lean accepted the offer, and resigned his commission in the British army. The first work given to him by the Sultan yvas the ordering of a number of large guns. Kaicl Mac Lean received the honor of'knighthood from the King i:i 1901, “for services rendered to the British Government.”
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/GIST19070727.2.35
Bibliographic details
Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2143, 27 July 1907, Page 2
Word Count
333KAID MACLEAN’S CAPTIVITY. Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2143, 27 July 1907, Page 2
Using This Item
The Gisborne Herald Company is the copyright owner for the Gisborne Times. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Gisborne Herald Company. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in