GOVERNMENT'S EXISTENCE ENDANGERED.
THE POSITION OF GORDON AT KHARTOUM. PARIS, April 22. The Government's existence is endangered unless a vigorous action is taKen to save the French officers whosce position is likened to that of Major Gordon at Khartoum. A relief force of four thousand natives under French officers is at pres ent forming, and may rejach Fez on Siay 3rd if unopposed. flier are various reports that Fez has fallen and trie gjarrison been massacred. me newspapers urge that decisive measures be tjaken, unheeding the , caipmgs of the German and Spanish press. Ihe Temps declares that Frenchmen are in danger of dejath through the Government's ineptitude. They must be saved anof- the Powers told outright what we intend to do. There are a dozen British at: Fez, including James McLeod 'and his family, Dr Verdon and wife and two children, two English lady missionaries and two American missionaries forty-five Frenchmen and five' Gertn'ans.
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Grey River Argus, 24 April 1911, Page 5
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