Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1909 — PICTURESQUE LETTER FOR SECRETARY KNOX [ARTICLE]

PICTURESQUE LETTER FOR SECRETARY KNOX

Presented by Representatives of Sultan ot Morocco. Washington, Oct. 5.—-Clad in the white robes and turbans of Morocco, Sid Laarby Zenhagi, first secretary, and Sid Mohamed Ben Abdeslam Ben Jelul, a native of Fez, were received at the state department. The Moroccans presented letters for President Taft and Secretary Knox. Knox’s letter reads as follows: “Praise to the only God. There is do strength or power but in God, the Great, the Almighty. “To the dear, the wise, the stateman, the minister for foreign affairs (secretary of state) of the great American nation, the Honorable Philander Chase Knox.

"We beg to inform your excellency that our master, the Prince of Believers, the Sultan of Morocco, has sent in answer to kind and courteous invitations to participate in the Hudson-Ful ton celebrations the servant of His Shereefian Majesty, exalted by God. the Fekleh, the scribe, the wise, Sid Laarby Zenhagi, son of the fambus Fekleh, the late Sid Mohamed Sanhgagi who was one of the viziers of our master, the great master, the great king, the late Sultan Mouley Hassan, may God have mercy upon his soul, being accompanied by the servant of his majesty, the Amin, the wise, the well known for his trustfulness and commercial reliability, Sid Mohamed Ben Abdeslam Ben Jelul.”