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...Arabs and 120,000 Frenchmen in Morocco's teeming, gaudy boomtown Casablanca, some 1,000 miles from the scene of the murder, had even heard of the victim, Tunisian Labor Leader Farhat Hached (TIME, Dec. 15). Yet Casablanca's Nationalist daily El Alam that day urged all Moroccan workers to mourn his death in a general strike. At a strike meeting in the headquarters of the General Union of Moroccan Syndicates, Abdesslem Jibli, knife-faced, hot-eyed Arab leader, fanned the flame of hatred for France before a crowd of some 1,700 turbaned Arabs and serge-suited...
...Town. Soon afterward, the pasha's runners, some 400 men in high red conical hats, whose duty is to cry their master's will to the people, were racing through the streets crying: "Workmen, you must go to work tomorrow. Shopkeepers, your shops must remain open!" Frenchmen who heard and understood nodded in satisfaction; maybe there would be no trouble after all. But in the vast jungle of tin-roofed hovels known locally as Bidonville (Can Town), an angry mob was forming. There the criers were beaten up before they could deliver their message. Glib agitators harangued little...
...trunk slashed and torn beyond recognition. From the tailor's label in the shreds of the suit, the body was identified as that of Louis Ribes. Two young cyclists who-had followed Ribes's car for safety suffered the same fate. The bodies of three more Frenchmen were found later, two so badly mutilated that at first police thought they were women...
French authorities on the scene blamed extremists for the crime, and used the occasion to lock up a dozen top nationalist and labor leaders. The Tunisians blamed the assassination on what they said was a secret terrorist organization of resident Frenchmen called "the Red Hand...
Hached's union called a three-day strike. Three hundred Arabs trying to march on the headquarters of the French Resident General clashed with police. In French Morocco, also stirred by Hached's death, Arabs killed seven Frenchmen, horribly mutilating some. Then, as the Arab mobs surged through the streets of Casablanca looking for trouble, police opened fire on them, killed at least...