THE MOROCCO QUESTION.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 315, 14 January 1908, Page 2

THE MOROCCO QUESTION.

MORE TROUBLE IN THE AIH. ; Received 13th, 10.27 pm.. \ Morocco, January 13. 'i The deposition of Abdul Azig and the proclamation of Mulai Haflcl in Fez Ml Sultan, is the outsome of the national-, i«t movement, and due to Abdul Aziz asking Ulema's, of Fez, sanction tot keep Christian troops to aid him in rd| asserting his authority. , A little beyond Rabat is in the handej of Abdul Aziz. Even there the populaI tion is hostile to him. | General Lamade is advancing towards Rabat to protect the Spanish mission and European residents.

PRESS OPINION. London, January 13, The Times' Parig correspondent asserts that there is a consensus of Oninion that Mulai Hafid's permitting of a holy war against all Europeans should impel the Powers to support Abdul Aziz who is a guarantee for Europt in regard to the executing of the act of the Algeciras Convention. i ,

A cable received yesterday stated that he paeißcation of Morocco was likely to be further delayed owing to the unanimous proclamation, in Fez, of the Pretender Mulai Hafld (the Suthu* haU-brother) as Sultan. Mulai Ks *aiam it, was mentioned, has been nrodumed Viceroy, pending' MulaiHaCa That Fez should have unan'imlul}? gone over from the Sultan to the IZ tender ib one of .the.most serious deve&T?t t*Z h . ave yet teken sv I™ m -SuStan's-point of view. Admini d 8 Bphera of e f««ve Influence was confined to the south-western hinterland and that towns ior on the Atlantic coast, has sucX himself at Fez he will be right in thf Sultan's northern stronghold f", ~ one of the three residences of the W, tan and is the holy dty of the Empire. It is the seat of the once famous TMversity of Morocco, and is the leadfcfc commercial town of the **