The Riff Wars Mulai Hafid making headway : The proclamation of the moorish usurper at Fez. Mulai Hafid , the half-brother of the present Sultan and claimant to the throne of Morocco , has been proclaimed Sultan at the Government gate of the famous city of Fez , northern capital of Morocco. The announcement of his Sultanship was received with tremendous enthusiasm. The success of Mulai Hafid threatens still further to complicate the problem with which France has to deal July 1908