Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 August 1907 — MANY MOORS SLAIN. [ARTICLE]

MANY MOORS SLAIN.

Snltun's Troops Defeat Large Force of Moroccan Rebel*. The Sultan's troops are reported to have defeated again a large force of the Knass tribesmen, in whose territory Oaid •Sir Harry Mac Lean has been held captive. Six hundred Moors were killed and several of their villages were burned. In Paris the Moroccan situation is regarded as having assumed a distinctly more serious aspect. The ferment in the interior of Morocco, the proclamation of Mulai Hafiz, the Sultan’s brother, as sultan by a section of the rebels, and the appearance of a new Moorish army before Casablanca have created fear that the whole country soon will be ablaze with fanaticism. More than 1,000 colonial infantry, cavalry and troops of other arms have been mobilized at Oran and are ready to embark on board transports, and other transports and warships are in readiness at Mediterranean ports to sail for Morocco. Public sentiment is becoming stronger against the halfway measures, which, it ia feared, will lead to disaster. The Paris papers assert that the world must support France if it is decided to send a military expedition to Fez, as in no other way, the newspapers say, can the state of anarchy in Morocco be ended. The government, however, is resisting this pressure, desiring to keep within the bounds of the Algeciras convention, and reports that negotiations are under way for an enlargement of the mandate of the powers are emphatically denied. Nevertheless it is admitted, even in official circles, that something might happen which would place an entirely new complexion on the situation' and compel France, in the name of the powers, to chastise Morocco. -