The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-09-07
FRANCE FACES
BLOODY WAR
MOROCCAN SITUATION GRAVE
--MOORS NEARLY DRIVE
FRENCH FROM CAMP.
MAJOR pRtvlOST FELL
In Battle and Fierce Fight Was
Waeed About Body Raisuli
camped Near Tansier--Max-
argan Bombarded.

\ Faris. SEPT G.-Thn latest adyicei
I from Casahlanca telling or Tuesday
fight paint the situation in AlCry
Alarming colors than ever. II now ap-
pears that the Moors actually SUI.
ceeded IN turing the French flank and
4 We're in a fair way to cut them OF
from the camp when reinforcements
arrived and saved the day for the
French, slaughtering the Moors right
and left. The Moorish losses are now
placed at about 1000.
According to the dispatches receiv.
ed today Major Provost was not kill
ed while on his way back TO camp,
but fell in the thick of the fight at
Sidi Nouns, when the Moors attack
ed his flying column on its return
from Littellil, whore it had been dis
Ipatched to drive back several hands
OF tribesmen who were threatening
the town.
Major Provost was at the head OF
his men and had just cried; Fer
ward. my children forward!f when he
fell with bullet through his heart
A desperate fight at once began and
centered around the body Of the afIIanI
commander Of the foreign legion, the
French refusing to abandon the body
of their leader. and the Moors maxi
ing every effort TO capture 1t,
The French horsemen held their
trpo,tfI ,,,ftl f,, f..D.,, fhr,
camp, arrived, and the Moors were
driven off with tremendous losses. II
was during this engagement that the
French Hank was turned.
The French newspapers say the |
Of this engagement. has es
tablishcd the fact that France IA now
involved in actual war and not en-
gagged in mere expedition of paci
fieation
GIL Bias" and the Socialist organ, |
"L'IIumanite. join In calling for the
Of Parliament, and also
re-echo the demand that the govern
ment call d conference OF the powers
signatory Of the Algeciras convention,
o determine on the best course TO
pursue.
Foreign Minister Pinchon an
lounces the sending of a note TO the
,owers informing them that the Mo
ocean Minister OF War, Mohamnled
iabas had admitted his inability TO
the lives OF European in
TO the proposed police force.
ccordlng to the terms of the Algecil-
s convention. Il
II will, therefore, probably be neces.
ary to minister aid to organize a po
Ice force with Frenehmen and Span.
ards. {
This Is taken TO mean that France :
nd Spain may be Obliged shortly TO 2
and detachments of troops at the
loroccan seaports.
Tangier dispatches say there are
O,000 hostile Moors concentrated
car Taddert and Littellii, and 10.
DO Kabyies near Alcagaza. The ma
yes insist that the Moors haze
lenty OF ammunition.
Raisuli is camped fifteen hours
Iarch from Tangier, but Ii not show.
Ig any signs of preparing to make .
hostile move.
The government Is somewhat con
arned over the distrustful attitude
Germany and Great Britain. A di1 :
ateh from Berlin today quotes Herr
schirsky, German Foreign Secretary.
) saying to the Representatives If
ther powers who had called that !,
lille Germany fully accepted the as.
1rance OF France as to the extent !
the operations In Morocco, the Al.
eciras convention. of course. dId not =
the suppression OF a ,
iyil War In Morocco by France and ,
pain. Great Britain has signifeti a
er intention OF awaiting Germany's Il
ction. =