NEWS OF THE WEEK
THE most important news of the week comes from Morocco, and is' of a very serious character. On Tuesday the tribesmen in the neighbourhood of the port of Casa Blanca, on the Atlantic coast, joined by the mob in the town, attacked the European workmen engaged on the new harbour and killed eight of them. The victims were stoned and horribly mutilated by the crowd in full view of other Europeans, who were powerless to help them ; while, says the .Times correspondent at Tangier, the Moorish women on the housetops uttered cries of 'joy. Many of the Moors concerned in the outbreak appear to have ridden through the town declaring that the Holy War had begun. The immediate cause of the attacks seems to have been, however, the harbour works, partly because these works are believed to be signs of increasing Christian power, and partly because they will interfere with the profits of boatmen and others in the town. The animosity of the crowd was specially directed towards the French. The French Consul appears to have behaved with great coolness and courage. ,
