New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-01-28
WORLD AFFAIRS VIEWED BY OBSERVERS ABROAD
INTERNATIONAL GAME At
ALGECIRAS.
tspecia! by French Cable to The New-Yors Tribunol


Especial by French Gable TO The Nev,Yors Tribune,
Copyright 1906. by The Tribune Assocaticn)
Paris Jan. 27-The international game at
AIgeciras proceeds very slowly The kilograms
to-day indicate that nothing beyond cutting for
partners and the shutting of cards can occur
unul another week, when few preliminary
ulcks may be won or lost although no trunnp
cards viii be played until the close Of the con-
Ference which may last couple of months or
more, owing 10 numerous HOLIDAYS and
ABOVE all. TO the tedious delays of fo r.
or hVe days imposed by the Moorish dele
gates, who insist upon every successive meas
ure being submitted to the Sultan by spe-
cial messengers. The French papers. feeling
assured that no serious results will ensue from
tne conference, dwell upon the comic as
pect OF the proceedings. The Moorish delegates
began first Of all by mistaking the German dele
gate Herr Radowitz for the French delegate
NJ Revolt and vice versa, thus attrbuting TO
france the propositions OF Germany and credit
ing to Germany the statements of France It is
interesting to note that all the volumnous dec
larations and verbosities of the Moors are edit
ed, revised and expurgated by the Germans be-
fore being submitted to the conference The
Moors, having brought over from Morocco their
families and harems. are now comfortably in
stalled at the expense Of the Spanish govern
last as long as possible They express the opin-
ion that, as all the powers agree in recognizing
the sovereignty Of the Sultan, It is not worth
while to NEEDLE with his affairs but ad-
NIT that there is one real service that Europe
can confer upon Morocco-that is 70 lend
money. The Moorish delegates came to Alge-
ciras scantily provided with funds, and it is
now limited by several Partisan correspondents
that they their secretaries propose to aug
ment their pocket money by supplying the
newspapers with interesting inside features or
sensational incidents during the deliberations.
The Moors. with their deliberate procrastination
and tactics Of obstruction. are so far masters Of
the situation. They moreover. suit the French
policy, for France did not want the conference
at all. and anything that prevents the abstruse
generalities which are far all that has been
formulated by the German delegates from be-
coming crystallized into practical working
shape will be supported by French diplomacy
at Algeciras- To put the policing Of Morocco
into the hands Of an international gendarnerie
under the control OF all the powers represented
at Ageciras is admitted as utterly impractcable
and there is no chance at present Of the con-
ference consenting to give such mandate TO any
one or to any two powers.
Gun ammunition in large quantities is being
dispatched from Lorient and Cherbourg to Fort
de France for the use Of the French cruisers of
the Atlantic division
COURTSHIP OF KING ALFONSO.
There is keen interest taken here in the court
ship Of King Alfonso and the Princess Ena Of
Bat .nberg, their daily automobile excursions at
Bia ritz being recounted in picturesque detail
During one OF these trips they passed the
Villa Combo and were saluted at its gates
by the author Of "Cyrano' and Madame Ros-
tand.' The young King seems completely
raptured by the English princess whose hand
trembled when yesterday morning for the first
time the King, in the presence Of her mother,
kissed it It IS reported that the wedding will
take place May II. the Kings twentieth
birthday. The King is incognito. bearing the
title OF Marquis OF Corodonia, the same title as
that assumed by his father. Alfonso. at twelve.
when he courted Maria Christina at Arcachon in
1879 During the last three weeks only one
day has passed without King Alfonso and
Princess Ena Of Battenberg exchanging postal
cards, and to-day the King apologized TO the