The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-08-06
WARSHIPS
lombard
The MOORS
Villages About Casa Blanca
Destroyed Fort Silenced
by Big Guns.

TANGIER, Aug. 6.-The French
cruiser Galilee was bombarding the
Moorish quarter of Casa Blanca and
the neighborhood of the city when the
last steamer, which has just arrived
here, left that port. The Kabyles at
tackled Casa Blanca, and the Moorish
authorities applied to the commander
of the Galilee for assistance. He there
upon landed sixty men and a Spanish
cruiser landed forty.
This landing party was fired on by
the Kabyles and seven Frenchmen, in
Guiding an officer, were wounded. The
combined F'ranco-Spanish force there
upon cleared the city of hostile tribes
men, guards were placed about the for
eign consulates, and then the Galilee
opened fire with her big guns on the
rebels.
LONDON, Aug. 6.-A special dis
patch received here from Tangier to-
day describing the bombardment of
Casa Blanca says that the French
cruiser du Chayla and the Spanish
gunboat Dor Aware de Bazan par
t~icipated with the Galilee in the bonn
bardment of the villages surrounding
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the fire of the warships.
During the bombardment large rein
forcements of tribesmen came up and
many of them were killed or wounded.
The Casa Blanca battery joined in the
firing on the foreign ships, whereupon
the guns of the French and Spanish
cruisers were turned on the battery,
which soon caused the Moorish com
mander to send a messenger to the
French admiral requesting his pardon.
This was refused, and the admiral sent
a peremptory order to the Moorish
commander to surrender himself to the
French consul.
According to another special dispatch
from Tangier about $50 Moors are re-
ported to have been killed in the town,
battery and villages around Casa Blanca
during the bombardment of the foreign
warships. The Casa Blanca battery was
reduced to ruins by the warship shells.
PARIS, Aug. 6.-Foreign Minister
Fichon and the Spanish ambassador
here, Senior Leon y Castillo, have
agreed on the terms of a Franco
Spanish note informing the powers
signatory of the Algeciras convention,
including the United States, of h in
tention of France and Spain to keep
within the terms of the convention.
The situation after the landing Of
troops at Casa Blanca will largely de-
termine the subsequent measures to
be taken by France and Spain.
No outside power is expected to CO.
operate with the two powers men,
toned. The French Government has
no confirmation of the reports that
British or German warships are on
their way to Morocco.
ORAN, Algeria, Aug. 6.-The French
armored cruisers Gloire, Jeanne D,Arc,
Condo and Gueydon today embarked de-
tachments of artillery and the Foreign
Legation and a battalion of sharpshooters
and sailed for Morocco. The transports
have left Algiers with troops for the same
place.
BERLIN. Aug. "a special dispatch
received here from Tangier today says
that the German Charge d'Affaires at
Tangier called the attention Of the French
Charge d'Affaires to the dangerous posi-
ton of foreigners at Magazan, on the
west coast of Morocco, and that the
French official directed a French cruiser
to proceed to Magazan. The many Ger
mans at Magazan, most of whom live out
side the city, will be protected by the
French cruiser.
MADRID, Aug. 6.-The garrison of Al
geciras has been ordered to be placed on a
war footing, with the view of sending
troops from there to Morocco.