Word: sultanate
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...Rabat, the Premier was met by Marshal Lyautey, French President General. Sultan Mulai Yusef, for whom the French exercise a protectorate and who is nominally the autocrat of all Morocco, granted an interview to M. Painlevé. Through interpreters, the Sultan said : "You have my salutations. Your visit gladdens me. It means that France has interested herself in Morocco with all her heart...
Concerning the war between Abd-el-Krim, "Sultan" of the Riffs, and the French in north Morocco (TIME, May 11 et seq.), there were, last week, rumors, rumors everywhere and hardly a fact to print...
...When the Sultan of Morocco was harried by a lawless bandit from the hills, when that bandit seized upon a U. S. citizen and carried him off for ransom and satisfaction, the voice of Roosevelt boomed across the waters: "Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead...
...Raisuli, son of the desert, had captured Ion Perdicaris, U. S. citizen, son of a Greek who had been dwelling in Morocco for some 20 years. When the Sultan of Morocco heard Roosevelt's stentorian demand, he agreed to Raisuli's demand and Perdicaris was released...
...between Abd-el-Krim, "Sultan" of the Riffs, and the French (TIME, May 11, et seq.) continued...