The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-08-03
TROOPS TO GO TO MOROCCO
FRANCE 10 SEND MEN TODAY
OTHERS SEND WARSHIPs.
$500 French scsdIers 20 Go on Three Trans
ports-NaVal Demonstration by Other
Countries New Governor for Casa
blanca The City Reported Quiet.
!spseloI Cabts pespatehes 70 ras sum.


Special Cable Dispatches to Tss SUN.
PAKIs. Aug. 2.-Three transpor to are
preparing at Toulon to take $500 mon and
300 horses TO Morocco. One 3 due TO leave
tomorrow. when IL 10 expected the cruiser
jules Ferry will also sail.
The Petit Porisien says it understands
that an exceptionally strong naval mani
iestGticn will be made.
Algerian and Spanish troops rave landed
at Casablanoa. Under their protection a
police system will be inaugurated there
and at the other seven ports under the
! provisions OF the Algeciras convention.
TANoIER. Aug. 2.-The British torpedo
boat destroyers that arrived here from
Gibraltar have gone to Cape Spartel to
try to establish photographic communica-
ton with the French cruiser Gallee at
Casa blanca.
Il is stated that Mr.. Carlton, the British
Consular Agent, and his servants were at
tackled at Alcazar. Five. OF the servants
were killed. Mr.. Carlton is safe. Alcazar
is surrounded by hostile natives.
ALorERs. Aug 2.-It is reported that the
Morocco State Bank at Tangier has been
plundered. and hat a British consular
official has been carried of near Alcszar.
ROME, Aug. 2.-The cruiser varese. the
Duke OF the Abruzzi commanding, which is
now at Cadiz, has been ordered to hold
herself in readiness to proceed to Casa
blanca. The cruiser Etna has gone to
Tangier.
MADRID, August 1.-TWO gunboats have
been ordered to be in readiness to supple
ment the cruiser Infanta Isabel. which
has been ordered to Casablanca.
GIsRALTAR. August THE British cruiser
Antrim is coaling preparatory to sailing
for Morocco
LONDON, Aug. "A despatch to the
Central News from Tangier' says that Mulai
Alarming has entered Casablanca at the
head Of a force Of imperial troops and has
been appointed Governor.
The Times correspondent at Tangier tele-
graphs that a steamship has just arrive
from Casahlanca with many more refugees.
The town was calm yesterday when the
steamship left.
The rising last Tuesday is said to nave
been entirely anti-French. The harbor
works. which we're the cause Of the trouble
and which were under construction by a
French firm of contractors. have been looted
and destroyed. Five Europeans. some Of
them wounded, were rescued from the
crowd.
The head men of the tribes are preventing
the subjects of all nations except France
from leaving Casablanca. probably on the
ground that no further danger exists for
others. The native soldiers exacted heavy
fees from the refugees before they we're
allowed to leave.
TANoIER. Aug. News that has re-
ceived official confirmation comes from
Casablanca that the Governor Of hat city
has been dismissed by the Arabs. who ave
seized the custom house. Many Europeans
have taken refuge in the consulates.
The situation at Rabat is also serious
The tribesmen are demanding that French
men cease interfering with the custom
house.
II is thought that there is only one course
open. and that is 10 land French. Italian and
Spanish troops at Casablanca. punish the
culprits and restore order. in agreement
with the Sultan. All the members Of the
French colony at Casablanca a v EN-
barked on the British steamship Demetria,
where they await transshipment to the
French cruiser Galilee.
The members OF the Spanish colony are
being sheltered at their consulate.
Rabat is a seaport on the Atlantic coast
Of Morocco about eighty miles south OF
Tangier. It is n place Of considerable inn
p%ortance, having a population Of 5000.
Of whom about 1000 are Jews. II has manu-
factures Of cottons. woollens. silks and
pottery and exports large quantities OF
wool. hides, olive oil and grain
WASHINGTON. Aug. minister Gum
mere at Tangier to-day cabled the State
Department that the trouble at Casablanca
in similar to the Boxer uprising in China
and due to a~nti-foreign feeling. No Amer
leans were killed or Injured.