French in Moroc

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 3, 7 June 1900, Page 4

French in Moroc

A cable message -wh published on Tuesday eta a serious situation had de in S6uthern Algeria, ai several thousand Moon marcking to attack on© desert oases. Recent ev< that part of the world les presume that the report unreliable on* from sources, or, -what is more that French aggression h voiced invasion. Just at t of Britain's black week, w] even Russian intrigue Persian Gulf could drj attention of the British from the Transvaal war, graph in the Paris papen that the Flamand sc mission, travelling beyoi geria's western' border south-eastern corner of M had been attacked by the! a desert tribe, in the o Tonat, and liad been compe self-defence, of course, t and occupy Ani Salah, the of the oases. In 1844 acknowledged that the Sc Morocco included Tonat' dominions, and that in I{ had seized it and had be« pelled to retire. It had generally anticipated tbati as Britain was engaged ela French activity would creased in the Sahara. ' been met and checked Niger, but there was not) prevent its workings in So Algeria. The Parisian jo therefore, combined the joicingß over Colenso aadl fontein with praise of ] scientific expeditions anij admirable results. It mw been by a chapter of set that the expedition happeg reach th© oasis while tWI Ambassador was absent, I was -well armed, and tbrt Taaregs objected to-theoewj of their city by an arnwdi An attempt on the par^'o Tuarega to recover tls( unfortunately compelled French Minister to sen| military columns to the wf the scientists, the result,! that an immense area of M| country has come under H away. A glance at the msj show that France has «xiti the borders of Algeria fromf nearly 400 miles south. \ hope is that some day a lineilj from Tripoli to Niger mont£ cut off French territory Jfroffl rest of Africa, I