Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-09
CASA BLANCA
IS IN RUINS
BODIES LINE THE STREETS OF
SACKED TOWN
SHELLS FIRE MOORISH QUARTER
IN COMMANDMENT
Stores CIosed-Europeans Safe-At-
tack Feared-SaiIors Guard For-
eianers-No Americans Are
Dead or Injured
Rx Associated Press,

BY Associated Press.
TANGIER, Aug. S-The French war
ships yesterday landed 1000 additional
men at Casa Blanca, where street fight
ing apparently continues, judging from
the desultory firing heard day and night
by those on board the ships anchored
off that town. The Jewish quarter of
Casa Blanca has been sacked. Many
persons were massacred in the streets,
the city is said to be full of dead Moors
and the Moorish quarter is in ruins, hav-
ing been set on fire by the shells of the
big guns of the cruisers The stores are
closed and much hunger and distress
prevails among the poor.
The foreign consuls have ordered the
stores to be reopened and have estab-
lished a special tariff for food stuffs,
designed to mitigate the sufferings Of the
poor.
The Europeans, who are all safe either
on board SHIPS or at the consulates, are
guarded by bluejackets. The warships
continue to drop an occasional shell
among the groups of Kaybles on the
beach, in order to prevent them from
approaching the town. Advices from
Rabat say that the Kaybles have given
the governor a fortnight in which to
withdraw the French controller of Gus
toms. Otherwise they say they will at
TACK llle LOWI
LONDON, Aug. S.-The horrors of the
1ooting of Casa Blanca by the native
tribesmen are becoming known today and
their recital is inflaming the minds of the
natives against all Europeans. The situa-
ton in various coast towns is worse. The
natives are excited. A holy war is being
preached at Rabat. Anti-foreign senti-
ment is growing as a result of the activi-
ties of fanatical agitators. There Is fear
of a general outbreak. A number OF
European families are preparing to flee
from Tangler. The Angeria tribesmen In
the immediate vicinity of Tangier are
restless and may get out Of control. The
Moorish authorities have practically no
control of the situation.
There are many complaints among the
Europeans that France acted ill-advised
at Casa Blanca in bombarding that town
before protection could be arranged for
the Jews and Europeans there and else
where on the coast and in the interior.
The news from Casa Blanca, while con-
ficting as to the situation there today,
unites in showing that the bombardment
was continued for longer than was first
supposed, and that the lack of an ade-
quate French force to afford protection
resulted in an opportunity for barbarous
looting, rapine and pillage, with all the
accompaniment of murder and horror.
The first French landing parties could not
control the situation. Moorish authority
vanished with the first French gun shot,
and lawlessness reigned. 1t Is now re-
ported, however, that between 1000 and
5000 French and Spanish marines and blue
Jackets are ashore at Casa Blanca, and
that order has been restored.
TANGIER, Aug. S.-The activity among
the Adjerras tribesmen near Tangier is
creating some apprehension that sur
prise attack may be made upon the city.
French sailors are guarding the British
consulate at Casa Blanca, where the con-
sular agents of the United States, Ger
many, Austria-Hungary and Sweden have
sought refuge. The Italian and Portu-
guese consuls are at the French con-
sulate. A minaret from which heavy
sustained fire was directed against the
French consulate was demolished by the
guns of the French ships at the request
of the Moroccan authorities.
The European shops were damaged
but no Americans were killed.
The state bank agency at Casa
Blanca has been robbed of about $15,-
600, but no details of the robbery have
been made public. ,<1he French consul
ate was attacked|oy Moors during the