Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-19
SULTAN OF MOROCCO
BESET ON ALL SIDES
ANOTHER GENERAL UPHEAVAL
IS EXPECTED
President of AlI=lndia Moslem LEAGUE
Warns England That Mussumans
Are Becoming Powerful.
Budget Opposed

LONDON, July 1S-Events in Mo
rocco make it probable that before long
another general upheaVal will take
place. Mulai Hahd is beset on all
sides by enemies, and it may quite pos
sibly happen to him to see the final dis
integration of the Shereefian empire.
Mulai Hafd has never had a fair
chance of carrying out the plans and
aims he cherished when he depOsed his
| brother. From the moment of his ac-
CeSsiOu he was faced by the prODdems
of how to Conciliate the powers with
out offending his own people, and how
to put Moorish affairs in order with
out money He has entirely lost the
popularity which his success won for
him last year. The MoOrs, accustomed
to the IaXity of Abdul Aziz, have re-
/ sented the methods of the stronger
ruler Consequent Mulai Hahd is
faced by the greatly sWelled forces
Of Eel Roghi in the north and by a
Berber revolution, under Mulai kebir
in the south. His troops, ill-equpped
and presumably still unpaid, have been
worsted by both revolutionary parties
/ and his hopes Of a united Morocco
are, for the moment at least in the
dust.
I While he has lost the support of his
own people, he has failed to make any
progress in the favor of the powers
most concerned with Moorish affairs
The grin of France is tightening re-
lentlesSly on the country. He has
bitterly offended Spain, and sees no
prospect of any help, other than fair
words from Germany. As regards his
present attitude to England an anus
ing illustration Is furnished by his
treatment of the Englishmen in his
service. When Mulai Hafid won his
throne he had hopes Of proving that
he was not a rigid anti-foreigner, and
at the same time of SOftening the in
different heart of England by giving
posts of honor to one or two English
men. Since he realized, however, that
England was not to be thaWed into
friendship his attitude to these men
has changed. IL may be that Mulai
Hafd, driven to desperation by the
foes among his own people, will, by
preserving an unyielding attitude to
France and Spain, deliberately provoke
the expedition of combined French and
Spanish forces, which has already been
talked Of.
MosIem Warns England
The Aga Khan, president of the All
India Noslem league, has addressed
warning TO England which she may
well heed. Speaking of CaXtOn Hall a
few days ago the Aga Khan said that
many people in this country, even in
circles usually Wcll-informed hearing
of tn" Mussu.man minority in India,
failed to realize that it numbered at
the last census nearly 62,00OO00; that
its percentage to the total population
of India had been steadily rising since
the deCennial enumerations began,
nearly forty years ago, and that it now
constituted 2lA per cent of the total
a figure exclusive of the numerous and
martial border tribes included within
the political frontier of the Indian EN-
pire.
Not only was it the case that the
Musslmans to be found within the ad-
ministrative limits of the dependency
substantially outnumbered the entire
population of Germany, but their well
fare and progress was a matter of
concern to that vast brotherhood known
as the Islamic world, stretching in un-
broken line from the Asiatic seabOard
of the Pacific to the African coast of
the Atlantic, and numbering consider
ably more than 100000 600, or Is per
cent of the entire human race.
The kng-emperor had far more Mo-
hammedan subjects than any other
sovereign In spite Of the deeply
rooted prejudices and difficulties that
they had to meet, the members Of the
branch, by force of sound argument
and indisputable fact, had succeeded in
convincing the fair-minded people of
this country that the Indian Moslems,
though they might be unVersed in the