The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-12-02
Conditions Found
in Moroccan
Provinces

Press.) The trip from the Atlantic
coast to Fezz, that peop'e talked OF
ten years ago with about the same |
apprehension as of an Arctic expert |
ton is today an agreeable and rest
full excursion, according to members |
Of French delegation who came |
here from Rabat on an official mis- |
sion to the court of Sultan Moulay |
Youssef. Even the Berberes VINO
revolted last November and were
taught severe lessen by the French
troops at Khenifa, come down from
their mountain retreats now only to
tell their mutton and are as gentle
as their beasts. They saluted the
delegation with great respect. The
street arabs Of Fee, who in other
DAYS amused themselves by splitting
at visiting foreigners, fastened up to
carry the luggage of the delegation
and show the way into the town.
Fee. in these war times is a town
of majestic tranquility; the surround
ING region is as calm as the New Eng.
land hills the war seems hope essly
distant to the Moors, though at the
palace its developments are followed
with almost as much interest as In
the capitals Of Europe.
The Sultan after his daily siesta'
has the western dispatches brought
in and listens with sustained interest
to explanations of notifications In
the situation. though with less inter
est perhaps than that with which 81
Guebbas, the grand vizier, VINO was
educated in England, follows the pro
gress of events by the aid OF large
maps of the theaters OF operations
suspen5cd on the mosaic walls OF his
reception salons. He discusses the
! progress of the campaigns in the dif
ferent scenes with surprising compre
hension of military strategy and with
out once betraying consciousness ina
Tangiers was the first step, witt
p Casa Blanca and Agadir as the mrs
Z re'ay posts in the European conilag
] ration. His sympathies are openl
J with the French; and for the me
ment at least are those of most q
= the influential chiefs. The basis @
y that loyalty is found in the reasonin
/ of 81 Mohammed, u n,tability Of Fe'
c who took active part in the revol'
ton that cost Abdel Aziz his throw
and nearly cost ST Mohamed his ow
!, head.
: when / was young" says 81 Nj
hamed, Il was of most ardent nj
+ ture, and what | could not accom-
l. plish through politics ! was apt
l try with gunpowder. Years haN
y claimed me and though |, like m
! compatriots was much melted again
the French when they installed Their
selves in the country, ! said to m
\ self: What folly to enter into co
H. nict with so strong a people. w
!, shall certainly be vanquished. Bette
- Ire their friends than their enemie
:, 81 Mohamed's reasoning was I!
: Moroccan situation in a nutshell.
+ Tendencies to Revolt
$ Such lingering tendencies to reVo
an existed at the beginning of Il
= var we're quickly suppressed. Vel
4 shortly after hostilities began a Mo-
~ arrived at Mogador aud asked for Il
TO German consul. He was inform'
OF that all the German officials and Il
Is German colonists had been eXpell'
from Morocco. lie seemed so stron
VI lv put out at this information tn
no the French authorities arrested hin
n They found on him a message to Il
German conul from the pretendar
he FL Hiba, reading as follows;
ny "As was agreed with you, we a
S' ready to march against the Fren'
,o we are awaiting only for you to col
nv plete the delivery of the arms as "
Vi promised"
x. From that day the natives who HI
ed previously been under German pI
lection under the treaty concernil
w the Moroccan protectorate we
90 closely watched. All the chiefs we
IN called in by the heads of municipal
Iat ties and given to understand tn
ne they we're henceforth to enjoy
nd other protection than that of t
se French government and that 1t Won
no be so vigilant that they would bett
as
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