Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1915-11-28
MUCH DREADED TRIP
BECOMES ORDINARY
BUSINESS JOURNEY
Trip From Atlantic Coast to Fee
Regarded, Ten Years Ago, as
Akin to Arctic Expedition; Now
Agreeable Journey.


, pondence Of The Associated Press)-
p The rtip from the Atlantic coast to
! Fee that people talked of ten years
! ago with about the same apprehension
as of an Arctic expedition. Is today
an agreeable and restful excursion
J according to members of French
4 delegation who came here from Ra-
bat on an official mission to the court
tof Sultan Moulay Youssef Even the
I Berberes who revolted last Novem-
Der and were taught a severe lesson
BY the French troops at Khenifa.
come down form their mountain re.
treats now only to sell their mutton
and are as gentle as their beasts.
\ They saluted the delegation with
! great respect The street arabs of
I Fec, who in other days amused them
selves by splitting at visiting foreign
ers, FASTENED up to carry the luggage
of the delegation and show the way
into the town
Fee, in these wartimes. is town Of
majestic tranquility; the surrounding
/ region is as calm as the New England
hills; the war seems hopelessly dis
tant to the Moors, though at the pal
/ ace its developments are followed
almost as much attention as in the
capitals of Europe.
The sultan, after his daily siesta.
has the western dispatches brought in
and listens with sustained interest TO
F condemnation of ,,,- ,,.oa{ef..tt-.- =
! the situation, though wit HESS inter-
lest perhaps than that with which ST
/ Guebbas.. the grand-vizier who was
educated in England follows the prog
ress of events by the aid of large
maps Of the theaters Of operations
suspended on the mosaic walls of his
I reception salons. He discusses the
I progress of the campaigns in the dit
ferent scenes with surprising com
prehension OF military strategy and
without once betraying consciencen-
ness that Tangiers was the first step
with Casa Blanca and Agadir as the
first relay posts, in the European con-
tlagration. His sympathies are open
ly with " French; and for the mo
ment at least are those of most of the
influential chiefs. The basis Of that
loyalty is found in the reasoning Of
81 Mohamed a notability Of Eek. who
took active part in the revolution that
cost Add el Air his throne and near
ly cost So Mohamed his own head
When ! was young" said ST Mo
hamed, 81 was of a most ardent ma
ture, and what / could not accomplish
through politics / was apt to try with
gunpowder. Years have Gained me
and though ], like m ycompatriots
was much melted against the French
when they installed themselves i'm the
country, I said to myself. What fol-
ly 10 enter into conflict with so strong
a people. We shall certainly be van
quished. Better be their friends than
their enemies ST Mohameds reas-
oning was the Moroccan situation i'm
nutshell
such lingering tendencies to re- /
volt as existed al the beginning of the f.
war were quickly suppressed Very
shortly after hostilities began a Moor
arrived at Magador and asked for the .
German consul He was Informed that
all the German officials and German .
colonists had been expelled from
Morocco. He seemed so strongly put
out at this information that French
authorities arrested him. They found .
on him a message TO the German con
sui from the pretendant, III Hiba.
reading as follows:
AS agreed with you. we are ready
to march against the French: we are
waiting only for you to complete the
delivery of the arms as you prom .
Used"
From that day the natives, who had
previously been under German pro
lection under the treaty concerning
the Moroccan protectorate. were close F..
ly watched. All the chiefs were called
in by he heads of municipalities and
given TO understand that they were
henceforth to enjoy no other protec-
ton than that of the French govern
ment, and that it would be so vigil (
ant that they would bette raccept it
without resistance
The measures taken al that time
had double effect; they not only re-
pressed natives rebelliously inclined
but rejoiced a greater number of
Moors Wha had suffered fro mthe ar
rogance Of their brethren who had
presumed upon the protection OF the
German empire, which they consider
ed allpowerful, to indulge in an sorts
OF depredations on the rights and be-
longings OF their neighbors. A great
many rebels decided to go the whole
way and enlist i'm the French army.
The Moor never does things by half
when it comes to war An old north
African saying is that THE Tunis-
ians are feminine, the Algerians are
men but the Noors are warriors"
It is not allowed by the censor to
say how many Moors have gone north
TO fight for France Every month
new contingfnts that have completed
their training in the country are
sent on 10 join Colonial troops in
France and Belgium.
Al the beginning of the war i'm an Z