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Show . ... , 'Ti ..":.-,-.,:ai "Trtr' ar'--t " ----- FANATICAL MOORS MURDER JEWS AHO ASSAULT WOMEN Warfare at Cajsablanca Gives Arabs and Moors Chance to Wreak Vengeance Upon Inhabitants. Tnngler.-- Horrible details of tho ilaughtor of Jews, the maltreatment )f women and the pillage and burning of shops at Casablanca are told by passengers who havo arrived hero by steamer from that port. Thoy say that after tho bombardment of tho pluco bewail the Moorish soldiers and the Arabs ruvdngod tliomsclves upon the Inhabitants, plundering, killing and burning on all sides, Thoy sacked tho custom houso nud burned a largo part of the city, whoso streets aro tilled with decomposed bodies. Among the Juws killed wns a man under the protection of the Hrltlsh consulatu. His sisters wero assaulted und carried tiff by Moors. Many feats of heroism both by French and Spanish soldiers are recounted. re-counted. Arab tribesmen who hnd gathered from tho surrounding country to tho number ot 5,000 or 0,000 swept down upon General Drudes' cunip, outside Cosabluncu, Friday afternoon. They wero drlxen off with considerable loss. Later they renowed the .utack and again wore repulsed. Tho French troops nro in splendid condition nnd spirits. Tho warships supported them during the attack by keeping up a steady shell fire on the horsemen. Whon tho French consul from Caa-blancn Caa-blancn arrived hero on Friday be ,o-celved ,o-celved a letter from Muley Amln, thu mllitnry governor of Cusablonca, officially offi-cially approving tho action of tho French forcos and asking the aid of Franco in Indicting punishment upon agitators. |