Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-05-24
Held by
Morocco.

Held Dy holds us: all of our efforts
Moroc.o should tend to get out Of
Morocco. 1t was wiser
in the beginning to have landed 800 men
at Casa Blanca and occupied the city. or
to have sent in the first place six to eight
thousand men to take Mediouna. razzia
the country for a distance of forty miles
and after that act of brief vengeance re-
embark the expeditionary corps, all ex-
cept the 1.5OO men which would remain
as a temporary garrison at Casa Blanca
1t will be necessary said NJ. Leroy
Beaulieu. to employ 100000 soldiers, six
years. and many billions. to establish the
political and administrative protectorate
Of France over Morocco which would
mean the preliminary conquest of the
country.
NJ. Leroy Beaulieu. assuming that the
famous mehalla of Sultan Abd-el-Aziz
finally gets into Fee. wished to know how
| that is to benefit France. On the con-
trary. Abd-el-Aziz will declare war against
France That is psychological condition
in conformity with all the precedents of
the country. In any case, it is not the
sultan who is sovereign in Morocco.
Raisuli was the sovereign of the routes
between Tangier and Fee. Mulay- Hafid
In turn. Is playing sultan. He does not
aim to replace Abd-el-Aziz and accord
country he will be permitted to reign
as the Sultan of Marakech The stimuli
taneOus notes of the two sultans address,
ed to Berlin and cited in the White Book
indicate collusion between the brother
sultans.
The mistake OF the French government
in the opinion of NJ Leroy Beaulieu, is
that 1t has never asked itself what will
happen on the morrow or the day after.
When you enter an enemy's country"
M 1arnv- Roan1ion 10
to be prepared to get out. 1t is never the
getting in that Is difficult; it is the power
of remaining, or the power of getting out
The French entered Moscow. Madrid
critical moment is the moment of getting
out. For this reason from the very mo-
ment OF getting in at Casa Blanca it was
necessary to think Of getting out
NJ Leroy Beaulieu would direct all of
the strength of France to the Algerian
frontier. There France
Interests In possesses positive rights
Aloeria and the basis of a solid
action. 1t Is her duty to
defend rights guaranteed by the treaty Of
1sly in 1915 and which were confirmed by
the act of Algeciras. France may occupy
the valley of the Moulonia and also Taft
lelt And NJ. Leroy Beaulieu remarks on
this point:
I'VE have the right to go to Tafilelt and
We would do well to use this right There
we may remain in this principal oasis
until order is completely re-established
and Morocco has paid us a suitable war
indemnity. At the same time nothing pre-
vents our occupying Cape Indy. that door
of the western Sahara through which is
carried on an active contraba Of arms
NJ. Leroy-Beaulieu concludes that his
suggestions will restore at the same time
the prestige Of France in Algeria and i'll
occidental Africa. If 1t Is not done
promptly he fears that Morocco will prove
for the third republican an aggravated
sense-that which Mexico was for the sec
ond empire.
A dispatch from Casa Blanca announced
that Gen. dAmade, at the head OF three
brigades deployed with a front. of eight
kilometers. completely surprised and de-
stroyed the enemy's camp at Medakra in
the early morning of the 18th instant
Following the conference at Paris II
means, perhaps, the inauguration of the
policy of prompt punishment and with
drawal as suggested by NJ. Leroy Beau
lieu.
Fee. the holy city. is the goal of the
two sultans Fee which ranks next to
Mecca for sanctity. once boosted the pos
session of the famous University of Mo
rocco 1t is admirably situated in a great
gorge of the mountains. Diebel Ait Yous-
SELF whose snow-crowned SUBMITS provide
abundant water for the vast gardens of
the city.
The two SultanS are reported as racing
to reach the sacred city with their follow
ers. But the race has been so long Gt is
1915 kilometers only southeast of Tangier)
as to create the suspicion that it is no
race but comedy. which Is being PLAYED
by the brothers In accord. Tie goal of
each is rather Berlin than FeZ.
CHI. CHALLENGING