AFFAIRS IN MOROCCO.

Otago Witness, Issue 2811, 29 January 1908, Page 25

AFFAIRS IN MOROCCO.

THE EXCHANGE OF PRISONERS. PRETENDER HOLDS INTERIOR. FRANCE'S POLICY DEBATED. PREPARING FOR SIR H. MACLEAN'S RELEASE. MOROCCO, January 22. Mulai Hafid has been proclaimed Sultan in the holy city of Wazan. The prisoners for whose release Raizuli Stipulated before libenatang Kaid MacLean have left Fez for TangieT. After" the French withdrew, Mulai Rachid reoceupied Settat, thus giving Mulai Hafid control of the whole of the interior. Sultan Abd-el-Aziz holds the whole of the seaports except Saffi. <. January 27 V General Damade's troops were engaged for four hours in repelling attacks -and scattering the tribes in the Medinaka- -district. Many of Mulai Hand's supporters , de-. mand the abrogation of the AlgeciflsJ Convention, with Mulai •. Hafid as; Sult&a".'^ He and the Sultan; 'are short qf'jtnoneyi and are virtually unable to jnpye. ' / '..,' < Nineteen of the tribesman 'releaseot'at F«k and forming portion of .'the .prisoners^, about to be exchanged for Sir- Harry "M^c- ' Lean have arrived at Tangier. While the Sultan, Abd-el-Aziz is- unable to obtain a loan from the State Bank at Tangier, Raisuli is depositing 'therein j £15,000 out of Kaid MacLeaVs ransom, at 4 per cent, interest, i PARIS, January 22. j The Premier (M. Clemenceam) declare t that General Damade has in no case em- ! played- Abd-el-Aziz's. but it is impossible for France ' to'TofgeE CnaifAhd-el-Aziz is the only Sultan who is recognised by the Powers. " -• ,^>- «:- January 25. . : -In the French a Chamber of Deputies during a debate" on the Moroccan situation M. JauTes interpellated the Government regarding its policy. The great feature of the debate was' the dramatic intervention of M. Delcasse vi justification of his policy. He made a stirring protest against the hesitations and timidities prompting M. Jaures. and his followers- to .demand the- abandonment of the European mandate to Morocco.