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...boss, the Sultan of Morocco, was unable to catch Raisuli, settled the affair by paying a $70,000 ransom to the bandit to release Perdicaris...
Recalling that Teddy Roosevelt sent warships to Tangier in 1904 to rescue a U.S. citizen named Ion Perdicaris (who had been kidnaped by a Moroccan bandit named Raisuli), La Moore quoted T.R.'s famed ultimatum to the Bey of Tangier: "Perdicaris alive-or Raisuli dead."*Lashing out at the State Department's Office of Far Eastern Affairs for its "notorious . . . pro-Communist sympathies," Scripps-Howard in another blast cried: "Writing polite little notes has produced no results. Action is needed. A U.S. naval blockade of [Chinese] ports would bring the Communists to terms...
Married. John A. Perdicaris, nephew of that Ion Perdicaris whose capture by the late Moroccan bandit lord, Mulai Ahmed er-Raisuli, created an international stir in 1904;- to Miss Eunice Maxwell Howard of Dayton, Ohio; at the Hotel Ritz-Carlton, Manhattan. He, a rich tobacco importer of Manhattan, Paris and Venice, hastened to sail for Europe last week with his bride...
...this they shouted and much more during a week's rejoicing decreed to celebrate the marriage of Abd-el-Krim to the 23-year-old daughter of the Moroccan chieftan whom he deposed (TiME, Feb. 16, 1925, SPAIN), Mulay Ahmed ben Absalem ber Raisul, called by the press "Raisuli," self-styled "Prince of the West...
Later the Caliph rode on horseback through the streets of Tetuan and muttered a ritual prayer before such of the numberless holy places of the city as were not considered worthy of an actual visit. Before the mosques of Sidi Ali Raisuli, Saidi, and Sidi Mohammed El Hach, he descended from his horse and was elaborately welcomed amid complicated ceremonies during which several bulls were sacrificed. Finally he reviewed the native troops amid much rejoicing...