New-York tribune., 1906-12-02
WORLD AFFAIRS VIEWED BY OBSERVERS ABROAD
MOROCCAN PROBLEM-4N
ARMY REFORM
Especial by French Cable to The Tribune,
Copyright. 1905. by The Tribune Association

Copyright. 1905. by The Tribune Association
Paris. Dec. 1.-The explanations of M p,chor
minister of Foreign Affairs on the depart-
ure OF the naval squadron for Tangier have
eANeh general satisfaction and are held to be a
"e"eo gage or peace. The measures under
eahen oy the French government are purely pre-
VentiVe. and being strictly in accordance with
lhe stlpulatlons of the AIgeciras conference can
not 1t is believed here arouse the susceptible
ties OF germany. At the French Foreign Office
perfect confidence is expressed that no interna-
tionaI European incident will result from the
combined intervention of France and Spain in
Morocco which Will primarily take the form of
passive demonstration. to become active only
in case Of the European colonies in Morocco
being seriously uenaced. NJ. Jaures's warning
that there is danger Of intervention previous to
the ratification Of the Algeciras conference,
which cannot be formally accomplished for an
other week, has fallen far as the press is
concerned, deaf ears and the general feeling
is fully in accord with Premier Clemenceau's
unfiinching argument in yesterdays debate that
protecting European lives and property is the
first duty to be observed
MEDICAL LECTURES SUSPENDED.
The very unusual course has just been adopt
ed by NJ. BRAND, Minister of Public instruction,
of suspending for week the medical Iecturing
violent hostility shown by large number of
medical students to the dean of the medical
faculty. Professor Debove, who is believed to
have inspired certain radical reforms which it
is proposed to introduce into the system upon
which medical degrees are granted For sew
eraI days past no medical professor has been
able to give his lectures owing to the noise made
by the students. who have pelted the lecturng
table with coins, eggs and Jumps of plaster
They object to the proposed granting Of the
certificate IN higher studies as tending to mini
mize the value Of the ordinary medical degree;
also to the refusal Of the aggregated profess
sors to allow q new medical chair to be estab-
lished in favor Of scientist who does not be-
long TO their corporation. Students OF other
faculties have joined their medical comrades
in this protest, and a regular student strike,
resembling those so frequent in Russia, is now
threatened
EMPLOYMENT OF SOLDIERS
NJ. Pcquart, Minister of War has Just issued
a new order regulating the employment of SOL
diers on work not strictly Of a military char
acter. In future all drags hitherto owned by
regiments are TO be suppressed, so that the
attendance Of officers in uniform at hunt meet
ings will cease Soldiers are no longer TO be
employed at racecoUrses except TO assist the
police in keeping order They are not even to
be permitted to clean the reginentaI tennis
courts Another order on similar lines will
shortly be ISSUED regulating the duties of or
derlies, who will longer be allowed TO act
as stahlernen or nursery maids in the estab-
lishnlents of wealthy married officers, occI1pa-
tons held by the Minister of War to be
inconsistent with the military calling
EXHIBITION OF PAINTINGS.
The autumn is q busy season for Partisan
painters. Several interesting one-rnan exhibit
tons have been opened. of which the best is
that OF Paul Sain, who counts among the most
brilliant OF the older school of landscapists He
is a painter par excellence of the sunny South
and OF melancholy inland waters. This year he
shows many admirable Corscan and Algerian
scenes, the fruits OF a recent voyage to those
regions. a lighter and more human note is sup
piled by Albert GuiIlaume, who at the Bernhem
Jeunes Gallery draws laughter by a series Of
satiricaI genre pictures, which are those Of a
reformed caricaturist in black and white whose
painters art has been learned from Hogarth
and Daunier. Aime Morot who, like his late
father-in-law, Gerome is both painter and
sculptor. is engaged on portrait of Ambassador
Mccormick. Julius Stewart is busy with a vast
canvas. very different from his usual style rep
resenting the departure from Sandy Hook, in
December, 1866, of the American yachts for the
first ocean race. The picture is destined for the
New York Yacht Club, and Will be hung in the
model room. The Fleetwing, the Henrietta and
the vesta figure IN the foreground with swelling
sails.
THE SEASON At NICE.
The Nice season is reported to be somewhat
backward, but the operestic season has begun,
and to-day the Grand Cercle opens with a
dining room, which is the finest in the Riviera.
Among the latest arrivals are Brutus J. Clay,
the American Minister to Switzerland, with Mrs.
Clay and ]. B. Worden, while Mr. and Mrs
Whitlock are expected shortly from America.
G. I B.