The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-01-18
.EL TORRES ASKS
QUEER QUESTION
Wonders Why Powers Don't
Hold a Conference Over
Russia.
MOROCCAN CHIEF DOESN'T
LOOK FOR AN AGREEMENT
Islam World Excited Over Fate
of Last MuSsulman
Kingdom.

ALGEZIRAS, Spain, Jan. 1.-THE
delegates OF the Moroccan conference
today took a day OF leisure in order TO
enable the secretaries to get ready for
their work and INDUCED In private
conversations among themselves or
spent the time In preparing with their
Junior colleagues for the discussion OF
the surveillance of contraband arms In
Morocco, the first question to be dis
cussed at the next meeting.
ambassador White visited Gibraltar
after he and Minister Gunmere had
gone over the political situation In
Morocco regarding Illicit trade In arms.
When the conference shall agree on
regulations for the punishment Of for
| eigners engaged In smuggling arms
| into Morocco, most of the countries in
| Guiding the United States. will have TO
| legislate or the subject, only Great
! Britain and Spain can by orders In
council penalize their subjects abroad.
Predict Disagreement.
While the talk among the embassa-
| dors is all of conclliatlon and harmony,
Mohamed El Torres, the Moroccan
| Foreign Minister and head of the mis-
sion OF Morocco. and Mokri, the Sui
tan's principal agent, do not believe
| tndt the conference Will agree.
Budget Meakin, an eminent authori-
ty on Morocco, had a prolonged conver-
cation today in Arabic with Mohammed
I5l Torres. and repeated to the Asso-
ciated Press the Moorish Views as fol-
| lows:
Moors to Remain Passive.
"Mohammed Ell Torree Will be pas
sive observer at the conference until
1t enters the last stage If the powers
do not agree the conference will fall
to pieces of itself without the Moors
lifting a finger II, however, the pow
ers accept a general plan OF control of
/ Morocco. tie sultan cannot be asked
to submit to anything that VIII insult
the faith or provoke a rebellion among
his own people. The powers Will hesi
tate before facing an international mil
itary occupation of Morocco to impose
a scheme OF administrations.
Expect One Ally.
The Moors expect some power TO
take their viewpoint even were gen
eral agreement attained. They pray
much of the time for the Almighty to
protect his faithful, and they trust that
the powers of evil VIII fall into confu-
sion. The whole of the Islam world is
somewhat excited over the fate of Mo-
rocco, as 1t is the last Independent
Mussulman kingdom of Africa.
Illicit Trade in Arms.
"Mohammed Ell Torres expresses sat-
isfaction at the fact that the confer
ence will begin a discussion of contra
band arms, since this is one question
on which Morocco is anxious to secure
the Intervention OF the powers. The
Moroccans contend that while the
French and German Governments
nominally restrict contraband arms
from entering Morocco. the great man.
ufacturers OF arms in France and Ger
many reap harvest by the Illicit in
PRODUCTION OF arms, thus fomenting an
archy and insurrection. Therefore Mo-
decisively stop this contraband trade,
May Precipitate Crisis.
"On the other hand some of the en-
bassadors fear that the contraband
question may precipitate a crisis over
the main Franco-German controversy
as the surveillance Of contraband arms
involves the determination whether
France alone shall patrol the coast or
/, / whether the powers shall establish an
international patrol The determina-
tlon of who shall establish the patrol
may therefore bring up the principal
FTanco7German issue over France hav-
ing a special position warranting her
to direct the maintenance OF order
In concluding the conversation Mo
hammed Ell Torres used the following
expressive sentence as Indicating the
| inconsistency of the powers;
why don't they hold a conference
upon Russia and establish order
| there?"