Fez, Oct. 18.
Doumergue, the President of France, to-day visited the old city where ' the merchants, proud of their splendid establishments, gave: him a warm welcome, Pasha, after wi and expressing receiving the head of the French] Republic, gave voice to his devotion and affection for protecting the nation which had overwhelmed the natives with benefits.
MIN, Doumergue replied expressing] his thanks in very cordial words.
The President to-day conferred the Grand Cross of the Legion d'Hon-nour on the Pasha of Fez. Before he left he instructed M. Dumesnil, the Minister of Marine, to deposit in the offertory at the mosque of Moulay Idris a purse of gold, a [symbolic and traditional offering.
In the afternoon, the President inspected the troops of the gatrison.—
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