Following the bombardment and military invasion and occupation of Casablanca in 1907, a French daily called was established by a reporter for the Parisian newspaper "Le Matin" on November 28, 1908, at the behest of General Albert d'Amade, "for the defense of the interests of and the extension of the influence of France". With a conservative, colonial editorial liane that rejected any notion of Moroccan sovereignty and supported the idea of making Morocco an extension of French Algeria. In 1912 in its 682nd issue, the newspaper published:""