Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1907-08-09

Muloy Amin, the military governor
having employed soldiers to guard the
! town from Arab attacks and having
done everything possible to secure its
safety
There were number of Arabs
twelve miles distant, the writer goes
on, but a majority of them refused to
take part in the harvesting All the
residents retired to rest at o'clock
The correspondent says:
Monday morning however. we were
suddenly alarmed by a summons to re-
pair to the British Consulate owing to
notice from the Galilee that IT was
. intended to land force and occupy the
town at once. II was understood that
the Galilee had been in wireless COM
munication with the warships and had
received instructions TO get party in
side the town in order to facilitate
subsequent operations.
The correspondent in describing the
landing of the French force at s a. m.
as narrated in former dispatches said
| "Singly and carrying disjointed rifles
concealed in yalises to avoid suspicion.
party of the Galilee's men had been
Z conveyed on SATURDAY, to the French
consulate where they took up their
position on the terrace of the roof that
. commanded the fore shore and a corner
of the town and also took in the water
gate batteries from the rear.
a furious musketry fire broke out
along the water and a dull booming
from the old Moorish battery showed
that after all Muley Amin and his
soldiers were doing something.
They made. however. poor resist
ance. and their fire ceased. In the
meantime the roar of the Galilee's
guns increased and shells were seen
bursting all over the Moorish quar-
ter Wounded men wore seen drag
ging themselves along the streets. In
1 twenty minutes all seemed over. But
IT was onlr lull, for the firing was
soon resumed and the fighting was con-
tinued intermittently until half past
six in the morning
Then Muley Amin. with number of
other officials came to the British con-
sulate offering to surrender. The con-
sui referred them to. the French consul.
They objected that it was impossible
to approach the French consulate be-
cause the Spanish consulate was al
ready firing at every Moor who passed
in the street and they feared a similar
reception from the French consulate.
Consul Madden thereupon gave to
Muley Amin a formal-letter of intro
duction to the French consul and ad-
vised the Moors TO carry a white flag.
They then went on. Their mission
apparently was successful. for the fir
ing soon ceased and at nine o'clock
public criers were about proclaiming
that the town would be shelled no
longer. We ate our next meal with
quiet mind"
With the firing of the first shot the
authority Of Muley Amin and his op-
ganization vanished. His soldiers bolt
ed with their rifles. leaving the town
exposed to rapine and pillage in which
they themselves participated. Fierce
white robed Arabs carrying guns and
mounted on fine horses. began to ride
about, directing the looting operations
and even women were seen carrying
eloads and assisting in the pillaging At
first rolls Of clothes and other mer-
chandise which. after money. are the
most coveted by the Arabs. were taken
from the shops, and then quantities of
household articles were carried away