Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 3, 1907, (In two parts), Part II

File No. 2151/48.

Minister Gummeré to the Secretary of State.

[Telegram—Paraphrase.]

American Legation,
Tangier, August 23, 1907.

States that the troops of the Sultan have been routed, with heavy losses, by tribes under the leadership of Raisuli, and that the situation at Alcazar, only two days from Tangier, is very serious.