Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-06-11
SITUATION Is SERIOUS
RETURNED FROM
MOROCCO TALKS IN LONDON.
Says Bandit Chiefs Tribesmen Are Be-
yond His Control-Raisuli's
Demands Detailed.

A cablegram from London last night says:
A. J. Nathan of Pennsylvania long a resi-
dent of Tanger and who has just arrived in
London, describes the situation In Morocco
generally being serious. He considers
that Messrs. Perdicaris and Varley are in
the gravest danger. AS Raisuli is simply
common bandit. the tribesmen are quite
beyond his control. IL they thought Raisul
was not acting squarely they would them
selves attack the captives.
The latter far in the interior OF the
province of Beliaros. in the vicinity OF Null
ian Add Oelem, the most sacred shrine in
north Morocco
1t is certain. Mr.. Nathan says. that if
marines attempted to march into that dis
trict the prisOn would be killed. Had
Raisuli waited another day he would have
captured United States Consul General
Gummere who was going to visit Mr. Per-
Cicaris Mr.. Nathan adds there is moth
ing to prevent Raisuli or any other bandit
with ore hundred men from entering Tan
gier and carrying of any diplomatic body.
as the local garrison. nun erng five hun
dred men, is utterly unreliable
The Original Conditions
The original conditions made by Rails
uli were that ransom of $500
should be collected from the gov
enors of Tangier and Fee; that Raisuli
should receive amnesty for past offenses
| and the Perdicaris kidnapping; that all the
| sultan's troops should be withdrawn from
| his tribal district, and that ne should
ceive lordship over that district, with free
dom from taxation and tribute. Raisuli de-
manded also that the governments OF Great
| Britain and the United States guarantee
| the faithful performance by the sultan of
| those conditions. 1t was early made known
| to Raisuli that the governments OF Great
| Britain and the United States would not
make the suggested guarantee and, further
| more, that the United States government
| was dealing directly with the sultan in this
| matter, and was not concerned in the terms
| he made with Raisuli so that the captives
| were released unframed.
The Force" Landed.
Rear Admiral Chadwicks statement
that He had landed a force at Tangier"
| to protect the Belgian legation is the
| subject of goodnatured badinage among
naval officers at the department. in view
| of the fact that the force" consisted OF
! two unarmed marines. AS has been al
| ready stated, these soldiers were sent
| to the Belgian legation, situated in re-
| mote part of Tangier, for the better pro-
| lection of the Countess de Bousseret the
American wife of the Belgian minister.
who is temporarily absent from his post.
| The countess is the daughter of Gen.
John P. Story, chief of artillery, L. S.
army. stationed In this city. As Miss
| Caroline Story she is well known in this
city and at Fort Monroe. at which latter
| post her father was stationed for several
years. She was married in 1896 to Count
| de Bousseret, while the latter was coun-
| Sellor of the Belgian legation in this city.
While serving his country at Vienna the
| tertiary and accredited to the Sultan OF
| Morocco