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Show EUROPEANS IN PERIL THERE Situation in Morocco Grows More Serious, and Strangers Stran-gers Dare Not Go Out on the Streets. TANGIER. March 27. The French armored cruiser Jeanne d'Arc and the cruiser La Lande have arrived here from Toulon. The commander of the former will hand a list of French claims to Mohammed El Torres, the representative of the Sultan, this afternoon. after-noon. The situation at Morocco is becoming be-coming serious, according to the reports re-ports received here. Hostile bands are parading the streets, and Europeans do not dare to go out of their houses without an escort. PARIS, March 27. In official quarters quar-ters here it is recognized that the Moroccan Mo-roccan situation is serious, but the consensus of European opinion being favorable, to France's action, a solution solu-tion of the difficulties is regarded as being very simple and not likely to produce complications. The Sultan of Morocco is expected to yield promptly all claims formulated by the commander com-mander of the French armored cruiser, Jeanne d'Arc, now at Tangier, as soon as he is convinced that the French attitude at-titude is inflexible and that France has the unanimous support of the powers. No news has reached the Foreign office of-fice relative to the occupation of Oudja by the French troops. |