TROUBLE IN MOROCCO.
MURDER OF A FRENCH DOCTOR. Received March 25, 8.29 a.m. PARIS, March 24. Owing to the murder of Dr. Mauchamp, French subject, in the streets of Marakeesh, the cruiser Jeanne d'Arc has been sent to Tangier. Received March 25, 10.7 p.m. MOROCCO, March 25, A fanatical mob stoned the British Vice-Consul at Marakeesh, who was defending his residence, where Europeans had taken refuge. He shot one of the mob. A Frenchman accuses the Germans of exciting the Moors against the French. Enraged at Dr Mauchamp's experiments in wireless telegraphy the mob forced an entrance into his house and stoned him to death. They also stabbed the body repeatedly. The houses of several Europeans were sacked.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8387, 26 March 1907, Page 5
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118TROUBLE IN MOROCCO. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8387, 26 March 1907, Page 5
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