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...years ago Josef Otto Klems, known to Moroccans as the Caid el-Hadj, told his extraordinary life story to a U. S. correspondent,* in part as follows...
...Hadj Ahmed-el-Mokri, son of the Sultan's Grand Wazir (Prime Minister), was stricken with typhus among the first and lay in a dying condition throughout the week. For any member of the potent Mokri family to be thus stricken would have caused a sensation throughout Morocco, but the general anxiety was made acute by the fact that Ahmed was the favorite nephew of famed and beloved "Mokri the Blind," for years the incorruptible and discerning examiner of all maidens put forward by their families or tribes as candidates for the Sultan's harem...