The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-05-31
FRENCH COLORS FLY
IN MOOR STRONGHOLD
Gen. Lyautey Takes Tuzzu,
Opening Up New Trade
Territory.
WIRELESS AIDS CAPTURE
Message Flashed Over Natives
Heads Prepares Way for
Assault.
WIRELESS AIDS CAPTURE
sn,c,ai respondsaee TO Tux Sun.

spec,ai Correspondence TO TBK SuS
PARIS, May af.-The French nag flies
over Taxa, the ancient stronghold OF the
Moors In southern Morocco and for Ions
the stumbling block on the road to Fos.
the capital, from the east. II Is one more
feather In the cap of Gen. Lyautey, COM
handing the French troops in northern
Africa.
with the capture OF Tazza communi-
cation is opened between Oran. on the
coast OF the Mediterranean, and the At
lantlc on the west, with the exception OF
the short distance that lies between Tasxa
and III Asara, which lies between the
nsvly captured city and Fec. Here
junction Of the two French columns. one
OF which has worked from the west and
tho other from the east, Is expected In
few weeks and then Fec will be in direct
railroad connection with Paris.
The advancing French column. which
has progressed slowly but surely from
oran, has built a narrow gauge railroad
as 1t went The line now extends as far
as MCoun, passing through Tiemcen
Marina. Oudjda, Taourirt. Gueroif. the
terminus Is at MCoun. but 1t VIII oe
ultimately to Fee. 1t will then take nine
hours to 20 from the old frontier OF AL
gerla to the capital of Morocco, and nj
teen hours to go from Oran, on the
Mediterranean coast, to Fee, thus placing
the centre of the old Moroccan empire al
sxty-two hours from Paris,
open TO French Trade.
This Is less time than it takes to %
.x,.I.. a.I mi
much more time than 1t takes to 60 from
Paris to Moscow. II is plainly seen, then,
that the opening up OF Morocco. for years
the only blight on civilized Europe, 70
French trade and French settlement Is
practically an accomplished fact.
Taxa has long stood impregnabie To
the French troops. The city occupies ana
protects the only pass through that part
OF the Atlas Mountains. as glance at the
map will show. II Is impossible to pass
TO the north or the south OF IL. The
guards OF this door 10 Fec have reputa-
lion OF being the most ferocious tribes In
Morocco. The Bou-Arain and the Bou-
Yahmed are better equipped than any oil
the other tribes, and In the Few conflicts
IN which the French have met them they
have not always come on with honor
Cen. Lyautey, whose position among the
French may be best compared with that
OF Surgeon General Cocktails among Amer
leans, prepared LOT tnS Naphutc VA o@SeA
as msthOdical.y as an engineer prepares
10 build a tunnel under the Alps. TWO
columns one from the east and the other
from the west, were sent against the city,
slowly working their way from village to
village, but making their advance perma'
nent by the building OF railways and the
establishment OF wireless telegraph sta
tons Each column carried a large sup
ply OF provisions.
On the Algerian side the advancing
column has been established for some
time at NJ Coun, about twenty kilometer'
from TazEa. The advance on the Moroc'
can side has been more difficult and the
column has gone as far as SouQ-el Arba
de Tissa, sixty kilometers from Taxa
The wireless station there communicated
daily with the station on the other sid'
OF Taxa at MCoun and the French made
plans for their final assault on Taxa by
wireless over tho heads OF the unsuspect
Ing natives.
MOors Flee In Terror.
The troops at MCoup which made tn
final dash to the door gates OF Tazzi
consisted of $500 men. and the advance
was made under cover OF darkness. II
their great surprise. the French met will
little resistance, al after the hrst sharl
fighting the Moroccans fed In disorde
with not even enough time to pillage tn
town, as is their custom.
A description OF the city Itself Ii fur
nished by Pere Foucauld. a French Wis
count. who became monk and In tn
late sos explored the greater part o
Morocco The city is situated on roc'
e.ghty-three meters above the STREAM
known as the TsEza, while to the mort
and west are high precipices, the cit
cInging. as II does. to the southern slop
Of the Atlas Mountains. 1t Is surrounds
nv low walls which in some places ar