AFFAIRS IN MOROCCO.

Otago Witness, Issue 2810, 22 January 1908, Page 27

AFFAIRS IN MOROCCO.

' ♦ r "A HOLY WAR." '" -ATST OBSTINATE BATTLE. THE USURPER'S FIuENDS ROUTED. PARIS, January 14. - M.'demenceau states that he is deter.mined that France shall not exceed the •limits of the Algeciras Treaty in. the maintenance ' of order and the protection of Europeans at the ports where it is her mission to reorganise the police. - The proclamation at Fez is not considered a 6 seriously affecting Abd el Aziz's 'position as long as he pays the Moorish troops. A Ethergrams are being exchanged between Paris and' Casablanca. LONDON, January 14. The Daily Mail asserts that Raisuli has sided with Mulai Hafid. This will retard Kaid Mac Lean's Telease. MOROCCO, January 16. Mulai Hafid is preaching a holy war at Marakesh. Abd el Aziz having advised the Europeans at Rabat to keep together, they have placed guards over their residences. A plot to re-establish the Sultan Abd el Aziz at Fez failed. January 17. ' General Damade, with four battalions o c . infantry, three squadrons of cavalry, and a battery of artillery, for 16 hours fought an obstinate battle at Settat Pass against Mullai Rachid's army, reinforced by the Shawis tribes, who participated in the last massacre. Heavy losses were inflicted, and Rachid's camp beyond the pass was destroyed and hie followers scattered, so that they will be unable henpeforth to keep the passage clear lor Mulad Hafid'e advance on Fez. Damade's casualties were light. Kaid Mac Lean is seriously ill. The : British Legation has despatched medical assistance. I ' • ====== With the close of the year -the old municipal system of New South Wales ceased to exist. The act under which it w^s con- ■ stituted was passed in 1867, and subsequent I tmeadmehts- had Altered it but little..