THE SULTAN'S HAREM

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 4 December 1912, Page 3

THE SULTAN'S HAREM

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franc* is much interested in the vi-'it el' Mulai HaJ'ul, who abdicated as Sultan •:)■ .Morocco recently. f Hi> N a -si.ii!l l l jr Oriental philosoph- <'-• m», uikofi his life calmly. An- | lumncing that he could not: face .his people- who opposed a I'Yenob protoct- ! orate, Jio asked to be relieved of hks I office. His l)rother, Muley Youssef, I has been made. Sultan in his stead ii'id -Mtilai Halid set sail for Franco i with a largo harem and retinue. I Mo has fifteen slaves to attend to his wants. Ono <,f them does nothing hut light his cigarettes, Halid receiving them after the slave has tested them by taking a i'vw puff's. Hafid's wives have already begun to make trouble. On arriving at Marseilles they quarrelled among themselves over their shares of lemonade and candy, which were new delicacies to (hem. He lid has become democratic. Flo now shakes jia:ids with visitors, a familiarity he never allowed when he wa:. a monarch. ] A newspaper man he had seen ii, 1 Ke/, recently interviewed him at Mar- j seilles.

j "Hollo;*' Hii/id exclaimed. "You i rms.st bo the devil. I leave yon at : I'Vz.and bore you ;;re waiting for me In Franco." Hafid will tret from bhe French Government ,n pension of £12,000 n year. He .seem--: contented with tin's and lives in regal style. lie has u,oim to Vichy for the cure. There is much -speculation as to the I'lituro of Morocco. It is realise-' that France will Jiave a difficult task to establish a time protectorate. Tt took over fifty years to subdue Algiers. According to a Moorish proverh, "Egyptians'are women, Algerians are men, hut Moors are lions." A press correspondent recently talked with an eminent French, military authority, who expressed the private opinion that Franco can never sub<lue Morocco. The republic is bending her energies to show her genius for colonisation, which has made of Algiers a remarkable example.