27 MAY 1911, Page 1

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

GENERAL MOINIER entered Fez on Sunday last at the head of the French relieving force. There was very little opposition to his advance, but, as usual in Morocco, the badness of the roads, or, rather, tracks—for Morocco is absolutely road- less—made the march, as the Times correspondent points out, a very considerable military achievement. When it is remembered that General Moinier took with him seven days' food for 8,000 men and a very large amount of ammunition for the Sultan's forces, one may judge of the amount of transport which he was obliged to take with him. We presume he had to rely entirely upon camels and pack mules. The internal situation in Fez appears to be much improved, and though the Euro- peans in the city were no doubt at one time in a good deal of danger, they were not in fact interfered with.