Deseret Evening News | 1907-01-07 | Page 11 | Raisuli's Fort Has Been Taken

fORT HAS BEEN TAKEN N Fight Was Shorty Shortt Sharp and AI most a Bloodless Affair HE AND FOLLOWER ESCAPED When Vii 1011 y Vere t no ilo noOne One Va as t Wattle k li Tangier Jan stronghold was virtually destroyed by fire and tell felt Into the lime hands or of the troops of at the sultan nt at noon today aft el e a 11 short and almost bloodless s light fight and his lla 00 succeed succeeded ed in to the mountains the dl spite the plane pIn liS of at Wal Minis Minister ter No o firing took place last night light hut but al 10 this morning tM the artillery opened on the town The Moorish gun gunner gunners ners ner showed utter In han handling their guns lint and the infantry lr t haphazard Two shells dropped the fortress wIthout reply and there ulan a body hody of the troops charged ant ana reached the halls nOlI desultory shots from th the surrounding brush town gates gales were open but them Were ele nu no ot of the place except 15 prisoners In Included whom acre Ioro four Portuguese A detachment ot of the government troops continued tiring firing In the direction of the mountains where and hili 11 fullone s were re observed fleeing the other government troops plunged the tho stronghold No o In the lighting fighting today were veto reported It III 1 e thought probable that the carried oft of their dead ot of War who has hils not left Ifft Tangier during durin the operations is next to move moyo against the 11 to the throne Mull Mohammed f a brother or of Ole sultan troy who whose r fol l lowers there hll have been bAen many defections recen recently 11 The Spanish officers ot of the Inferno created b by the Algeciras convention h have arrived here and will take up their duties as the end nd ot of I the ho month b