MOROCCO.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 28, 3 February 1903, Page 3

MOROCCO.

PKKTENDER'3 FORCES hOUTED. FEB PRESS ASSOCIATION. Received 2,10 50 p.m. London, February 2. The forces led by the Mcorish Minister of war suiprisfd and rushed the Pretenders camp at dawn, routing them with great slaughter, and capturing provisions and ammunition. They recap' ured the guns lost in the fight of Doer 23rd. ALLEGED ANGLO-FRENCH PROPOSALS. Received 3, 0.68 a.m. London, February 2. The Times' Madrid correspondent says that: Lord Land> dowry's and M. Delcsfe's assurance to Senor Ahrz zt, Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs, that intervention in Morocco, so far as they are concerned at paeient, is not intended, may bave quietened Sip .in, but he adds, " they told os'ly half the trute." He declares that M. Dec-sse, at the end of last summer, frarkly proposed to Lord Larsdowne that Franca would re-cogn'se Britain's occupation of Egypt if France was thereafter to hive a free hand in dealing with Mor icco, excepting the Nrr' h African 00-st lie*, with a view of securing its ty by pacific penetration, es a corollary to the Fraeca Italian arrangements as regards Tripo'i. Lord Lansdowne was not unfavourable to the proposals, but requested the postponement of the pourparlers until the African and Venezuelan questions were settled. There facts, continues the corresfor dent, show France's greater friendliness and goodwill towards Britain and both statesmen's rrcignition of the possible advantages of closer relatione l .