The Green Forest tribune., 1910-09-16

premacy, The sultan gave him opening.
 You looked worried, commander, when l saw you parade. What is wrong?" he asked.
 Kad Belton replied: T am worried Are these French officers going to under me, or am going to under them?
 T cannot give you an to any of those questions tonight" the sultan replied, but what ever happens, remember this that people who are forced will never be my friends
 That very night Eelton dispatched mahalla against Ait Yussi who plundering caravans and travellers. The force was held in check by tTibosmen and the sultan ordered Belton to con duct the campaign against the bandit in person He went reluctantly, for the was tense with intrigue and the French straining every nerve to get their military mission established.
 He caught up with Ait Yussi and after five hours of hard fighting defeated him. compelled him to surrender and collected heavy indemnities. Then he hurried back to Fez wondering what his ene mics had been doing in his absence.
 Omnous news awaited his return. Germany had agreed to give France a free hand in Morocco OF condition that Gormany's commerce not re- stricted The French minister had visited Fez.
 Beon went straight to the sultan who said: You have heard ;Ge news?"
 "The agreement? Yes It was a surprise to me"
 "A greater surprise to me-" the sultan replied
 Germany had kept, not only the sultan, but her consul Dr. Vassel, in ignorance of the nego tatons While Dr. Vasse assuring the sultan that Germany would not desert him In his time of need, Germany doing that very thing Neither knew the thing going to be done until after it was done
 The next six weeks Beton spent in studying French diplomacy. The French officers summed him, cut him, described him as a renegade The sultan replied to these islanders that Belton had served him we'll The French replied that French officers would serve him equally we'll
 The sultan refused hatIv to ,,art uitb Bolton
 In the spring there were uprsings which Bel ton put down. At Fez the undercurrent of in utgue continued to flow, and the French were slowly gaining ground. The treasury was empty The creditors of Aziz clamoring to be paid France the chief creditor, and the French were offering further loans.
 Belton broke the power of the bandit tribes and posted back to FeZ. He demanded to see the sul- tan. An audience refused He waited days and weeks repeating his demand He appealed to the grand vizier, recitng what he had done in the sultan's service The hardships he had borne ana the exc1tements and the dangers had turned his hair white. His health was broken
 The sultan would not him. would not ex- plain. He worried, harrassed and bullied by the French, ashamed to face the young English man who had placed him on the throne and con fess to him that he had no choice but to let him go.
 He decided 1t would be better to resign at once than to be kicked out later by the French He rendered his resignation to the sultan through the foreign min.ste".
 The resignation was accepted, presumably with regret, and Reton lost no time in returning to London Since his return the sItan has confe.f red him the insignia of grand officer of the Or. ders of Moghrebia and Mula ndrees for dstin. guIshed services to the Moroccan empire
 Two badges and star are all he has to remind him of the days when he essayed the role of king. maker.