THE TROUBLE IN MOROCCO.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8504, 9 August 1907, Page 5

THE TROUBLE IN MOROCCO.

HOT FIGHTING. Received August 8, .7 a.m. MOROCCO, August 7. Although the Bashaw of Casablanca gave permission for the!landing of a party to occupy the French Consulate, adding assurances that tine town would remain calm, when a d - tachment <sf seventy-five French landed at the sea gate Moroccan regulars fired, wounding seven. The French charged, bayoneting one hundred and fifty, and occupied the Consulate, which ,was filled by French refugees. The warships Galilee and Duchayla shelled the environs preventing armed tribesmen froisa entering the town. Two thousand five hundred shells were fired. Many persons were killed. The town was spared .as much as possible. The Duchayla will land a force also. A Spanish cruiser landed thirty marines. The Spanish battleship Nurn&ncia has left Cadiz for Morocco. Received August ,11, 10.45 p.m. j MOROCCO, August,B. | After the bombardment began jfie Bashaw of Casablanca begged ,M. Neuville, the French Consul, and the j French commander to stop it, promising to guarantee the restoration of; order and the safety of the Euro-' peans. j The Consul intimated that his reply! would be reserved until another party ; of sailors had landed. The sailors were landed and the Consul demanded the disarming-of all soldiers and br-inging them in chains to the . Consulate. Accordingly the soldiers who had fired on the sailors were led in chains to the Consulate. The Consul warned the Bashaw that these men would be shot if the natives continued to threaten the vicinity. The bombardment was then suspended, but was resumed at the: Bashaw's request owing to the: menacing attitude of the tribesmen on the outskirts. Melinite shells killed iand wounded hundreds.