Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-04
GOOD CHEER FOR Az|z
Morocco City Reported Cap
tured by Chief Mtugi.
TELLS SULTAN TO HOLD ON
Even Though Thou Shouldst Have
Lost All But Thy Undergarment."
RELIEF IS SENT TO BOUDENIB
France Awaits Return of Spain's
King to Submit Joint Note
to Powers.

Special Cablegram to The Star.
TANGIER, September At is reported
from Casablanca that Chief Mtugi has
entered Morocco City and has invited
Add Aziz to join him at Umrebia.
Native reports insist upon the magni-
tude of the defeat inflicted upon the
forces of Mulai Haid by Mtugi. August
20, at a point three hours outside Morocco
City.
A brother of Glaoui. one of Mulai Hafid 8
lieutenants, is reported to have been
killed. Hafids army is said to have been
dispersed and Morocco City Is at the
mercy of Mtugi.
Mtugi Encourages Aziz.
Special Cablegram to The Star.
LONDON, September A Paris dis
patch says Sultan Abd-el-Aziz has re-
ceived letter from Mtugi the tribal
chieftain.. who recently announced his ad-
herence to AZiZ, stating that he had de-
feated EIglawi and confirming the report
of the assassination of kaid Anf1oos.
The letter concluded:
Even though thou shouldst have lost all
but thine undergarment, remain at Cm-
| rebia, where shall seek thee
Aziz wished to embark from Casablanca
for Mogador to put himself at the
head of Omar Tozi's troops. He would
| have done SO had transportation been
available.
! Gen. d Aniade. the commander of the
| French forces in Morocco. has had an in
terview with AZiz, but with what result is
not known
| The victory of which Mtugi writes is
| the one Gen. D'Amade reported to the
French foreign Office yesterday and prob
! ably is the same as that reported August
80. Mtugi was said to have afterward
surrounded Morocco City, one of Mulai
| Hafid's strongholdS.
Kaid Anfioos was an influential and ac-
tive partisan of AziZ. He was chief OIL
the Haha tribe in southern Morocco.
| He seized Mogador in the interest of
Aziz last September, but withdrew in a
| few days October 10 he seized it again
and imprisoned Hafids governor.
| The last heard of him his army was in
trenched in the neighborhood of the city.
Relief for Boudenib.
COLOB-BESHAR. September A
French column under Gen. AlliX is due
| at Boudenib tomorrow to reinforce the
French force of 1.5O0 men reported to be
surrounded by 1900 Moors at this point.
Both telegraphic and flag communica-
ton with Boudenib are interrupted NO
new attack had been reported up to the
time the transmission OF information De-
| came impossible.
Special Dispatch TO The Star.
| PARIS. September 4.-The Matin says
! the Joint note which France and Spain
| will submit to the signatory powers on
| the subject of the recognition OF Mulal
| Hafid wil!s be dispatched to the powers
| when King Alfonso returns to Spain
| from England
King Alfonso and Foreign Minister
| Pichon. when they met in Paris 1t is be-
| lieved. discussed the note ana the Moroc-
can question generally.
The government is preparing yellow
| book on Morocco affairs. which Will be
published when parliament meets
French official circles resent deeply the
| intimat:on conveyed in the inspired COM
| municatiOr from Berlin to the effect that
| the real purpose of France. in delaying
| the recognition of Mulai Haiid. is to
| permit the republic TO make advance pri-
vate arrangements for the protection OF
special French interests.
| The Associated Press was today au-
| thorized to publish the following:
| "You can categorically deny such inti-
| nations. We are conducting no private
| negotiations What we are doing is in
| the general interest of all the powers
After Mulai Hafid is recognized we are
| confident that we will be able to take
| care of ourselves.
| The German attempt. to make it appear
| that France some time ago sent a con-
| sular official, like DR.. NasSel. to FeZ also
| is officially repudiated 1t is explained
the man France sent to Fee was a ma
| i've OF Algeria, whose mission was SIM
ply to act as custodian of the valuable
! French archives there. He was in no
| sense consul. like DR.. Vassel.
With reference to the German sugses-
| ton that France is trying to secure from
| Mula Eafid advance Endorsement of the
| loans made by French interests to ADD
1 El-AZiZ. it is explained that the French
| creditors of Abd-El-AZiz hold his jewels
| as security and that the other loans were
made by the Moroccan state bank. IN
l h i.lr In "a
has a representative.
| France is still awaiting Spain's final ap-
proval of the terms of the joint note be-
| fore communicating it to the powers
Germany Impugns French Motives.
BERLIN. September 4.-The French
| policy in Morocco has been interpreted
| in this city as designed gently to ma
neuver Germany out of any direct part
| in Moroccan affairs. with the ultimate
purpose, supported by Great Britain, of
acquiring that paramount position which
was the object of France. previous to the
Algeciras conference.
The French aims are regarded. today. as
| precisely what they were before Germany
| brought about this conference. They
| come. therefore, into conflict with the
! present determination of. Germany.
| This also may be described as exactly
what was held to previous to the AL
| geciras conference, namely, the inde-
! pendence of Morocco politically and COM
mercially. with no superior position for
| France or any other power.
Germany refuses to recognize the theory
| of the French foreign office, that France
| and Spain, as nandatories of the powers
| i'm Morocco, alone have the right to in
| itiate suggestions. In order to impress
| this view the German foreign Office took
| opportunity to be the first in proposing
the recognition of Mulai Hafid.
| Germany is not disposed to allow Mulai
Hafid to be compelled to take over large
| and indefinite French pecuniary claims.
| the effect of which, at the outset of his
| reign. would be to reduce him to the po-
sition of a French vassal.
1t SO happens that the autumn ma
neuvers of the German army in Alsace-
| Lorraine, territory taken from France,
| synchronize with the revival of the Mo-
roccan controversy.