The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-08-01
KABYLES KILL EIGHT
Moroccan Tribesmen Attack
Europeans in CaSablanca.
GENERAL EXODUS FOLLOWS
Foreigners Seek Refuge on Ships in
HarbOr, but COnsuls Stick TO Their
POsts-Nafives Enter Town Under
Pretext Of Selling COrn-RaisOuIt
FOrmulates Terms-ROIds England.

Tangier, July SI.-News Of the massacre
Of European workmen at Casablanca. one
Of the principal seaports Of Morocco has
been brought here by a German ship.
which had On board number OF Jewish
refugees.
They and the captain report that at
noon yesterday a large number Of Kabyle
tribesmen entered the town. attacked ths
foreign worl1men employed on the mar
Dor and tramway works. and bludgeoued
to death five Frenchmen. two Italians.
and a Spaniard. They denIed, nnutnated
and then burned the bodies. Afterward
they wrecked the plant and workshops
and returned to their villages.
The works are about mile and quar-
ter from the town.
When the news reached the people
there was a panic, especially among the
Jews, many Of whom instantly laid in
stores Of provisions and barrieaded them
selves IN the houses. About 400 others
He'd 10 the German snip.
ConsuIs stick to Posts.
a general exodus Of foreigners followed
later bur the consuls did not Quit their
posts. From an account given bv Dr
Merle, a Frenchman. who has since ar
rived from Casablanca. it seems lfxa1..
mat the deaths were more numerous than
stated He says that a large number
OF natives entered the town on the nre-
text OF selling corn IN the market. Al
midday they gathered at the harbor and
began abusing the native guards whom,
they ultimately attacked and killed Sam.
European workmen. who made their an
peaTance with arms, were also massacra5
Inc captain OF the German shin saws
the whole blame IS ascribed n Tho .o,-
ernor Of Casablanca. The outbreak was
apparently the result Of native anger ar
the railway and harbor works bai,g
pushed more than a mile from the cast
into the country Of the Mediouna and
Shaoia Kabyles. Fifteen hundred ~
these tribesmen protested to the Mo-
ish governor against this. some time ago
and also against the recently established
French control OF the customs at Case
blanca
RaisOuIi FOrmuIates Terms.
London, July 31-The Taneier corrA-
spondent of the Daily Mail says that Raj
souli, the Moroccan bandit. has formulated
terms making Great Britain the arbiter
of the fate Of Kaid Sir Harry MacLean
who is a prisoner in RaisouIPs hands He
refuses to tgeat with the Sultan. but
demands that Great Britain Immediately
compel the board of foreign affairs n
grant conditions and guarantee their ex-
ecution, or he viii kin Kaid AIacLean
The conditions are that the Sultan recall
the Moorish army now threatening him
and guarantee him the governorship of
the northern tribes. The corresponden+
adds that Great Britain can do nothing
1t is out OF the question TO land troops
in Morocco. If this could be done tie
situation would be speedily cleared up- az
4 majority OF the Moors in Tangier vyo,,Id
welcome them.
Tribesmen PilIuge Plant.
Marseilles. July 3-M. Bonnadix. con- |
tractor for the harbor works AT Casa !
blanca, has received a oahlegram from
his partner NJ. Gindro, dated Tangier !
saying that their workshop has been pil-
laged, a locomotive demolished. and an 1
engineer killed by natives
Another dispatch states that eight per-
sons were killed