• The Sultan, we are told by the Times correspondent,
watched anxiously from his roof for .the signs of the relieving force and the French 'advance guard were met by numbers of
g galloping messengers who were despatched in true Oriental fashion to relieve the mind of the monarch. They dashed back to carry food and news to their expectant sovereign. The investing and insurgent tribes broke up the instant that the French troops appeared, and we can well imagine that, as the correspondent said, it was a wonderful sight to see the in- habitants of the great Mohammedan city trooping down to witness the arrival of the foreign army, as they marched under the huge walls that surround Fez, with bands playing and bayonets fixed. Fez has seen no foreign invader for 'generations. The last invaders were Turks and Mohammedans. As far as Christians and Europeans are concerned, Fez was up till Sunday an inviolate city.
