Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-12-01
TRIP To FEZ NO
LONGER REGARDED
A HAZARDOUS ONE
LawIeSSneSs Has Been Sup
pressed and People Are
Gentle as the Sheep They
Bring to the Market Place

tAssociated Press correspondence
Fpz Morocco NoV s3- The Trip
fram DIE Atlantic coast Co Fez. that
people ulked II ten wear. ago win
about the same apprehension as ot
me Arctic expedition, is today am
agreeable ana rcsttul excursion ac-
cordinr 90 members of French dele
cation who came here from Rabat ou
an official mission 10 the court Of
sultan Moulay Yousscf Even the
E,rhcres who revolted last November
and were taught o severe lesson 10y
ne French troops N Eheniia come
down from their mountain retreats
now only 90 sell their mutton and are
ls gentle as their beasts They sac
lUted the dclegation with great re-
spect The street arabs of Fez who
On other days amused themselves by
splitting an visiting foreigners, hasten
ed ro to carry the luggage of the del
egation and show The way into the
town
Fcz in these wartmcs. is % town OF
majestic tranquility the surrounding
region Is as calm as the New Engand
hills, the war seems hopelessly distant
to the Moors though 1t The palace its
developments are followed with al-
most as much interest as In the capi-
tails of Europe
sultan Receives Dispatches.
The sultan, after his daily sesta.
has the western dispatches brought VA
and listens with sustained interest to
explanations OF any notifications jpn
the situation, though With less inter-
est perhaps than that with which 81
Guebbas the gran ylzier who was
educated lu England follows the pro-
gress Of events hy ne aid Of large
maps OF the theat,rs Of opcrations
suspended on the mosaic walls ct his
reception sllous ilc discusses the
progress of the ga upugns In the diff
fercnt scenes with surprising compre-
henslou of military strategy and with
out once betraying consciousness that
Tangiers was the first step. with Casa
Blanca ana Agadir as the first relay
posts Ia the European condensation
His Ampathios are openly with tn.
French and for thc moment at least
are those of most of The influential
chiefs The basis of chat loyalty is
found ia the reasoning Of 81 Mohamed
= uoHbilty Of FEY who took active
part m the revolution that cost Abdel
Azlz his throne and nearly cost 81 Mo
named his own head
when was youue said 81 Mo-
homcd was of most ardent ma
Wrc, ana what { could not accomplish
through politics | WAS apt to try with
Bunpowder Years have colmed me
and though + like my compatriots,
was much melted against the French
when they Installed themselves in the
country I said to myself What FOLLY
to enter into conflict With SO strong
"a people We SHAH certainly be YAM
pushed Better DE their friends than
their enemies 81 Mohamed's reas-
oulng was the Moroccan situation ir
"a nutshell
No Tendency 90 Revolt
Such lingering tendencies to revolt
as existed at the beginning of the wan
were quickly suppressed Very short.
ly after hostilities began Ii Moor ar
rived at Mogador and asked for tn,
German consul He was informed thai
IAN the German officials ana German
colonists had been expelled from Nor
Deco. Me seemed So strongly put on
Iat This Information that the Ifrcnct
authorities arrested him They foun,
ION him % message to the German con
SUI from the prctcndant El Iliba
reading as follows.
AS was agreed with you We ar,
ready To march against the French
we are waiting only for You to com
picte the delivery of the arms as yol
promised
From that DAY the natives who ha'
previously been under German pro
lection under the treaty concernin
the Moroccan protectorate, were close
~ watched All Che chiefs We're call
ed in by the heads of munCipahtic
and given to understand that the
were hencetorth to enjoy no othc
protection than that Of the Frenc
governments and that 1t would be S.
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had double effect. they not only re
pressed natives rebclliously incline
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