The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-08-07
CASA BLANCA
BOMBARDED
French Ships Fired About Two
thousand Shells, Dealing Death
and Destruction.
HUNDREDS OF MOORS KILLED
Troops were Landed and Severe
Fighting Occurred in
Streets.
HUNDREDS OF MOORS KILLED
(By the Associated Press. }

PARIS, Aug. "a special dispatch
received here from Tangier says the
street fighting in and the lombard
ment of Casa Blanca, according to a
refugee who arrived from there on
the steamer Anatole, continued
throughout Sunday and was still in
progress when the Anatole left at & +.
o'clock Sunday evening. The French
ships fired a total of about 1000
shells. The number of MoOrs dead
will run into the hundreds. A single
party of marines killed $50 MOors.
The French wounded number about
12. No Frenchmen were killed. The
Marabout Sidi Marouf was wounded.
On Saturday night the Moorish
pasha at Casa Blanca was advised
that troops would be landed the next
day. He gave assurance that the
city would remain calm. At O'Clock
Sunday morning detachment of so
French marines, in command of an
ensign, landed in the city. This force
had hardly passed through the water
gate before it received volley fire
at point blank range from detach-
ment of regular Moorish troops. Five
marines and the ensign were wound
ed. The ensign vas shot through
both hands. In spite of his injuries.
he ordered his men to fix bayonets
and charge. This the Frenchmen
did and in the fighting $50 MoOrs lost
their lives. The marines continued
on their way, clearing the ground of
the enemy as they went, until the
reached the French consulate, where
French citizens In Casa Blanca had
taken refuge. The other European
rac;doptc hnd cnupht cafatv thair
respective consulates. In the mean
time the French cruiser Galilee had
commenced shelling the native viii
lage outside of Casa Blanca to pre-
vent armed Arabs from entering the
city. According to the AnatOle pas
sengers, the shells could be seen
plOughing up the earth and killing
men and horses.
At II o'clock In the morning the
French cruiser Du Chalay arrived.
She had been in wireless communica-
iton with the Galilee and as she
steamed in her gunners were at their
guns. Broadside onto the beach she
opened fire on the hOrsemen and
natives on foot. The hOrsemen were
riding madly in circles.
The Du Chalay also sent party
| ashore under command of General
| Maguine. AS they were landing the
men were subjected to a fire from n
Moorish force under command of the
Marabout Sidi Belout, but the rapid
fire guns in the bows of the French
launches cleared the ground for the
sailors who made their landing expe-
ditiously. They scaled the walls of
the Portuguese consulate, and reached
the French consulate under cover of
the guns of the marine already there.
A party of 80 men were landed
| from Spanish cruiser, but this yes
sci did not take part in the lombard
| ment.
| At $3.50 in the afternoon the
French cruiser Forbin arrived and
Immediately thereafter the Anatole
left. She was requisitioned by the
French consulate to carry dispatches
to Tangier. AS she left port she
passed German and an English yes
sci crowded with refugees.
| TANGIER, Aug. 6-The AnatOle, the
steamer which arrived here with the
news of the bombardment of Casa
Blanca, was unable to land here pas
sengers or cargo on account of the
disorder existing at that port
MADRID, Aug. 6.-The impartial
publishes dispatch from its Tangier
correspondent, saying it is reported
that the Pasha at Casa Blanca has
surrendered the town and that guards
| for the protection of foreigners will
be landed as soon as possible at Mo-
gador, Rabat, Saffi and Mazagan.
The Spanish battleship Numancia
has sailed from Ferroll for Morocco
via Cadiz In the event of more
Spanish troops being needed they will
be supplied from the garrisons at
Ceuta and Melilla.