The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-12-31
.PRETENDER is
GAZING GROUND
Water Supply Has Been Cut Of
From Fee.
SITUATION IS DESPERATE
SULTAN Fooled IN AN ATTEMPT
TO ESCAPE.

Tangier. Dec 3O.=Foreigners in the
interior of Morocco have been advised
to make for the coast, as provisions
are scarce and communications are
almost closed The pretender himself
is reported TO be twenty miles from
Fec.
The hostility against the sultan IS
/ spreading in Fee. The Moors are ex-
hibiting photographs of his arrayed IN
ridiculous garb. The sultan yester-
day assembled the mobiles Of the be-
sieged town at the palace and exhorted
them not to despair. assuring the con-
ference that imperial troops ultimately
viii triumph.
Madrid. Dec. 30.-It is reported here
that the sultan Of Morocco has Deen
foiIed in an attempt to break out of
Fee by the rebels, who are investing
that city.
Great Britain and France have noti-
fed Spain that they have no intention
OF taking any advantage of the situa-
ton in Morocco, and that they desire
70 maintain a status quo, even in the
event of the sultan being dethroned
and his palace taken by the pretender-
The communications have treasured the
Spanish government. which is thus re-
heved Of fears of international com
plications.
Rome. Dec. So.-Under the Franco
italian agreement in regard TO the
Mediterranean in which Italy under
takes to respect French aspirations in
Morocco. in return for an analogous
French undertaking regarding TripOli
Italy has no direct interest in the Mo-
rocco situation.
1t also can be said that Italy has no
intention Of occupying Tripoli unless
obliged to do so in order to prevent
/
Madrid, Dec. 30.-A dispatch from
Tangier, Morocco, today announced
that the rebels had cut the aqueduct
which supplied Fee with water, and
added that the place was practically
that unless the Kabyleh tribesmen
from the south come to the succor of
Fee the place must surrender within
three days.
kilograms received here from Tan
gler say that the sultan's troops have
abandoned the fortress of Razeme,
close to Fee. The pretender is nego-
tlating with the tribes in the immedi-
ate vicinity of Fee TO assist his ad-
Vancement.
The Spanish minister at Tangier re-
ports the situation to be serious, but
not desperate.
The cabinet met in Madrid at a late
hour tonight. After the meeting For
eign Minister Abaruzza expressed
more hopeful view of the Moroccan
situation. He said he thought it not
likely that the rebels would capture
Fee. Premier Silvella confirmed the
belief that no complications would en-
sue through the actions of other pow
ers.
Rome, Dec. 30-It is said that Italy
is not making any warlikes prepara-
tions in connection with. the situation
in Morocco. From an authoritative
source the Associated Press has re-
eeived the following:
ITALY, not being interested in the
Moroccan question, viii limit herself
to vigilantly watching events
London, Dec 3O.-The Tangier CORE
spondent of the Times says that the
remnants of the routed imperial army
returned to Fee in a deplorable condi-
ton. The sultan has told a deputatiOn
of Fee MOOrS that he is prepared to die
in defense Of the town. The Moors are
confident, continues the correspondent,
after what passed between Menehi
who visited London last year as Moor
lSh ambassador, and Foreign Secretary
Lansdowne, that in case of necessity
Great Britain cannot refuse to give the
sultan armed assistance. It is impos-
sible to disabuse them of this idea, as
they lay the entire responsibility for
the present rebellion at Great Britain's
door for fostering European ideas and
introducing Christians into the Moor