The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-03-07
PLENTY OF WORK
 KEEPS MOORISH
 TRIBESMEN QUIET
General Layautey, Governor of Morocco Tells How
 It Is Done.

Paris, March IA job of public work is worth a battalion of soldiers in keeping the peace in Morocco" said General Layautey, governor-gen- eral of Morocco, in explaining how order has been maintained in the protectorate since the beginning of the war while, at the same time, the gov ernor-genera1 has sent 10000 troops from the Moroccan forces, including 15.000 natives, to fight in France.
 At the beginning said General Layautey, i've had to consider two quesdons-to maintain French supre- macy in the protectorate and to fur nish France with the maximum of military aid.-~-.Thes two sconsid derations appeared to be contradictory because Of the agitation still rife among cer- tain tripes, but the dininution of the occupation force was offset in part by the territoria1s brought from France who, though not so apt as sea- iSoned troops for colonial service, have acquitted themselves admirably.
 IA further and even more effective compensation for the reduction of OUT forces Was the development of pub lie works, the construction of rail- roads, and the completion of high roads already planned with native 1a- bor. When the Moor is occupied earning money, he does not think of this gun; 8 job of public work is worth Ia battalion of troops, but to further develop those public works money is necessary-that is why am now in France to ask Parliament to author ike an addition of 72,000,Oo0 francs ttcf the loan of 1914. The proceeds are to be applied to different public en- fterprises, such as Irrigation, sewers, hospitals, schools, and telegraph and iEeaephone lines.
 ssMorocco has not only furnished an army corps to the field forces in France but has supplied several hun dred thousand bushels of barley, oats land wheat to the French army, and for the relief of Montenegro; after the kwar the country will become one of 4he great grainarfes o= Europe. It now raises only sufficient livestock hfor the provisioning of the country in Efresh meat, but it exports wool and hides, and eggs also in great quanti- Aties
 ssThere have been many specula- 4aons on the mineral resources of Mo- rocco. but no one knows what they are. It is possible there are consid- erab1e deposits of phosphate and some valuable minerals which await only the proper time for their exp1oita- tfon.s'
 General Layautey was chosen to govern Morocco because of the va1u- able services he had rendered in colo. present Minister of War, General Gal a1eni,Nin the colonies of Tonkin and Madagascar, and more particularly in his administration of the district of South Oran in Algeria. His pol lcysis close, confidential, loyal coIlab- oration with the natives from a polit-e ical, as well as from a material and administrative point of view, involv-. ing absolute respect for the religious convictions and social customs of the natives.
 During the twelve months of 1914, comprising seven months of peace, the connmerce of the French zone in Mo rocco amounted to 126. 900, 900 francs; in 1915, comprising twelve months of war. it increased to 5000. 900 francs, an ad difion of ST, ,00O. 900 francs from which France and it's Allies benefit 4edsto an apprectab1e extent
 s'The protectorate is now se1f-sus- =Eatn1ng," said General Layautey. t'That is to say, the receipts of the govern ssxdent are equal to the appropriations for current expenses, which for the ensuing fiscal year will amount to the fedu1vaIent of 10,0O0,oeo dollars ap- lprUxd mate1y.
 The loan we are asking for is for sexkr4ordinary expenditures for perma- sxent public works that the future sprosperity of Morocco should pay for, tsuch as the development of the Port of Casablanca, already well advanced, Ia1sd the extension of interior high lroads indispensable to the develop Exnent of the agricultural resources of the country.