Moroccan Affairs.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43218, 22 August 1907, Page 3

Moroccan Affairs.

(By Telegraph—'Press Association.) MOROCCO, Yesterday. Fire thousand Kabyle horsemen sharply attacked the French troops commanded by Captain Drude, on Sunday, from seven o’clock in the morning until eleven, when they were repulsed. The tribesmen displayed remarkable courage, charging within 300 yards of the French infantry. They also engaged the Algerian Cavalry, and had hand-to-hand encounters with sabres. Once they ambuscaded a party of fifty Spatus, but reinforcements extricated them. The French finally outflanked the Moors, who retreated. | Two Frenohmen were killed and three wounded. The Gloire, from the bay, effectively shelled the tribesmen, who lost 100. The Sultan is willing to guarantee the lives and property of foreign residents in Fez if the French troops confine operations in the immediate neighbourhood of Casablanca. Raisuli offers to withdraw from public life if France and Great Britain guarantee his life. PARIS, Yesterday. Captain Drude telegraphs that the attack was extremely serious.