SITUATION IN MOROCCO.
PRETENDER'S ORDERS. Received September 25, 7.31 a.m. MOROCCO, September 24. Mulai Hafid, the Sultan's halfbrother, has sent Mulai Rahad with 6,000 men and 50 field pieces to the Shawai district. It is understood at Casablanca that his orders are to restrain or persuade the Shawais to reserve their strength for a fight against the Sultan. If he is unable to restrain them he will then join forces with the Shawais against the French. Received September 25, 10.9 p.m. MOROCCO, September 25. The newspaper correspondents at Casablanca state that the tribesmen .are mixing with French soldiers in a manner that astonishes the witnesses of their recent ferocity. Mulai Hafid has been proclaimed Sultan at Mogador. The whole of the southern portion of Morocco acknowledges him as Sultan. SHAWAI TRIBES.TO PAY" AN p INDEMNITY OF £B,OOO. - Received September 25, 7.31 a.m. LONDON, September 24. Reuter reports that General D.rude has intimated that the Shawai tribes must pay an indemnity of £B,OOO. The delegates who brought the surrender of the tribes undertook to deliver those guilty of the attack upon Europeans on July 13th.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8544, 26 September 1907, Page 5
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184SITUATION IN MOROCCO. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8544, 26 September 1907, Page 5
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