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A TOWN DESTROYED.
WOMEN SOLD TO SLAVERY.
(Received Last Night, 9.5 o'clock.)
TANGIER, June 1. On the evening of the arrival of ■the French column at Fez, a detachment of the garrison, under officers of the French Mission, destroyed Lemta, a suburb of Fez. They burned the houses ani tailed a number of the occupants, dispersing the inhabitants. ■ Eighty Lemta women and children were sold into slavery ui the i<ez ■market, at prices ranging from one dollar to forty dollars. The native papers bitterly protest that the Maghzen and Europeans (had previously promised the tribes immunity. , General Monier has had a further •conference with Mulai Hafid, who asks that 5000 French troops remain ,in the garrison at Fez, and a similar imimiber at Mequinez. Mulai Hafid declares that the withdrawal of the troops would be the signal for a revolution. It is certain that neither the »ultan nor the Europeans will remain when the French troops leave. Gouraud's column, with Daltes column, which went from Fez to assist Giouraud, reached Fez on May 26th ,afteir heavy fighting.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10254, 2 June 1911, Page 5
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