New-York tribune., 1907-09-08
FRANCE AND MOROCCO.
N. CLEMENCEAU'S POLICY.
Keeping Order at Seaports-Defects
IN NaUy Yard Work.
Especial by French Cable to The TribuneI

ICopyr1sht, 1907, by The Tribune Assocation-l
Paris, Sept. Premier Clemenceau, profiting
by to-days fine weather. put on his chocolate
colored shooting costume and passed the morn
Ing pottinS hares partridges and pheasants-
He pays no attention to the violent attacks
made upon his Morocco policy by NJ. Jaures
and the Socialists. and is confident that he has
an overwhelming majority of Frenchmen with
him In fact, the more violently he is assailed
by NM Jaures and Herve the more popular he
becomes. Even the opposition now supports
NJ Clemenceau's Morocco policy. and the Jour
nal des Debats.' one of the bitterest opponents
of the Clemenceau Cabinet. says: mo doubt
Premier Clemenceau and his political friends
make detestable ministers. and It is to be hoped
they will be succeeded soon by better men:
nevertheless 1t is encouraging to find that NJ
Clemenceau does not shrink from the RESPONSE
biltties Of executive government and like many
of his predecessors, hide himself behind the
parliament which NJ. Jaures summons him to
assemble. NJ Clemenceau. with all his faults.
is the man who has the responsibility Of office
in a delicate international business and all pa
triotic Frenchmen should stand by him"
The French public feels that Premier Gle
menceau is merely carrying out the obligations
assumed by France and Spain at Algeciras of
keeping order at the seaports Of Morocco. NJ.
ClemenCeau declares that France more than
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order in Morocco. especially along the Algerian
frontier. and that this is the only effective way
of preventing Morocco from becoming for some
European nation a base for policy hostile To
Algeria
From q political point of view the situation in
Morocco is satisfactory. notwithstanding the
protests against the French made IN Berlin BY
the German merchants doing business at Casa
blanca and tho pecuniary claims Of German
subjects against the French authorities there.
The FrenCh government. according to all indi-
cations will in respect to such claims follow the
example Of the English after the bombardment
Of Alexandria In 1882. when they guaranteed
all clearly proved claims and made Egypt
eventually pay the bills. The German claims
at Casabanca will in q similar manner he in
do5sed by France and settled by Morocco.
The situation from military point Of view -
less satisfactory. because after the September
equinoctial gales the CasablanCa garrison will
be left TO its own devices. and can no longer
depend upon the daily support Of the navy; con-
scqueury supplies Of food. men and ammuni-
tion gre to he sent there before September u.
The service rendered by the French warships
has disclosed flaws in tho work turned OUT at
instance tho first class cruiser Conde came out
of drvdock at the end Of last June and took
part in tho naval manoauvrea. and has been
stationed AZ Mazagau. hut Is now found, by
the leaks discovered in her stern leave Mo-
rocco and again be doCked AZ Toulon. Several
other examples might be cited OF the perfunctory
way in which repairs are made at the French
naval arsenals and dcckyards. c. L B.