MOROCCAN AFFAIRS.
MULAI HAFID GREATLY ALARMED.
By Cable—Press Association—Copyright Received May 29, 5.5 p.m. Morocco, May 28. The iSultan, Mulai Hafid, is .greatly alarmed owing to the Berber tribesmen proclaiming his brother Mulai Rebir Sultan of Morocco.
Mulai was proclaimed Sultan in 1907, in place of .his brother Mulai Abdul Aziz, ■whose forces he had defeated. In 1908 ihe was recognised by the Powers, Mulai Aziz retiring into .private life at Tangier, where he enjoys a pension of £7OOO a year. The Sultan's forces comprise about 30,000 men of all arms, the mounted troops being the most valuable. There aTe said to be seventeen batteries, of which ten are provided with modern guns. The .population of Morocco, which is about 220,000 square miles in area, is estimated at about 5,000,000. The tTade of the kingdom is about £6,000,000 a year. (The trade of New Zealand, with an area of 104,471 square miles ana a population of a round million, was last year about £38,000,000.)
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 42, 30 May 1910, Page 5
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164MOROCCAN AFFAIRS. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 42, 30 May 1910, Page 5
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