The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-09-09
FIGHTING At
CASA BLANCA
French Troops Narrowly Escape
Being Cut Off in One En-
gagement.
THE MOORS ARE WELL ARMED
Raisuli Not Showing Any Signs of
Making u Hostile

PARIS, Sept THE latest ad-
vices from Casa Blanca. telling of
Tuesdays fight place the situation in
more alarming colors than ever. 1t
now appears that the Moors actually
succeeding in turning the French
flank and We're in a fair way to cut
them off from the camp when rein
forcements arrived and saved the day
for the French, saughtering the
Moors right and left. The Moorish
losses are now placed at about 900.
According to the dispatches re-
ceiver today Major Provost was not
killed while on his way to camp, but
fell in the thick of the fight at Sidi
Nouns, when the Moors attacked the
high flying column on its return from
Littellil, where it had been dispatch
ed to drive back several bands of
tribesmen. who were threatening the
town.
Major Provost was at the head of
his column and had just cried:
Forward, my children, forward!
when he fell with a bullet through
his heart. A desperate fight at once
began and centered over the body
of the fallen commander of the for
eign legion, the French refusing to
abandon the body of their leader, and
the Moors making every effort to cap
ture it, The French horsemen held
their ground until reinforcements
from the camp arrived and the Moors
were driven off with tremendous
losses. 1t was during this engage
ment that the French flank was
turned.
The French newspapers say the
magnitude of this engagement has
established the fact that France is
now involved in actual war and not
engaged in mere expedition of
pacification."
The social organ Humans de-
mands that the government call n
conference of the powers signatory to
the Algeciras convention to deter
mine on the best course to pursue.
Foreign Minister Pinchon announces
the sending of Il note to the powers
informing them that the Moroccan
minister of war, Mohammed Gahas,
had admitted his inability to guar
antee the lives of European instruc-
tors to the proposed police force ac
cording to the terms of the Algeciras
convention.
Natives Are Well Armed.
1t will, therefore, be necessary.
probably, said the minister, to organ
ize force consisting of Frenchmen
and Spaniards. This is taken to mean
that France and Spain may be obliged
shortly to land detachments of troops
at the Moroccan seaports. Tangier
dispatches say there are 1000 hostile
Moors concentrated near Taddert and
Littellil and 0.000 Kabyles near Al
cahaza. The natives insist that the
Moors have plenty of ammunition.
Raisuli is camped four hours
march from Tangier, but is not show
ingn any signs of preparing TO make
a hostile move.
The government is also well con-
of Germany and Great Britain. a
dispatch from Berlin today quotes
Herr Tschirosky, German foreign
secretary, as saying to the represen
| tatiyes of other powers, who had
called upon him, that while Germany
| fully accepted the assurances of the
| French as to the extent of operations
in Morocco, the Algecras convention,
of course. did not contemplate the
suppression of a civil war in Morocco
by France and Spain. Great Britain
has signified her intention of await
| ing Germany's action.