The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-06-16
IMPERIALISM OF
France BREAKS
ON RIFF ROCKS
PainleUe Returns to
Face Chamber Tuesday
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PARIS, France, June 14.-The Riff
Han troops are organizing the terri
tory they have wrested from the in
vadina French troops around Skier,
and are preparing for further adj
Vances.
Premier PalnIeve IL now at ouez-
zan and will return to Paris In time
for the session Of the chamber Of
deputies Tuesday The Communist
deputies will again demand that the
French troops be Withdrawn from
North Africa, and that Abd-eI-krim be
left In peace on his native soil.
Abd-el-Krim, in an interview with
a correspondent Of a London news
paper, declared that If Morocco we're
not rich in minerals the European
powers would not be fighting to take
# from the native Riflans. Comment
ing on the fact that the French had
called him a "brigand," Krim said:
"Supposing we Rifians were strong
enough to come over to England be-
cause we wanted to get your rich coal
mines? Supposing your army, led by
your king, came out to fight us and
we called your king a brigand,
wouldn't you be annoyed?"
Spanlsh-Freneh Attack Postponed.
The much talked of combined
Spanish-French offensive against the
MorOccans has not materialized, and
it is pointed out that even If the
Spaniards have consented, which has
not been ascertained, the consent of
Great Britain and Italy would also be
needed before the French troops could
enter the Spanish zone, as these two
countries were signatories to the
treaties which divided the African
territory among the European i'm
perialistic powers. Even the Spanish
blockade Of the coast has been post
poned until June 80.
The French and Spanish are said
to be still negotiating" and the Bri-
fish foreign Office has definitely an
nounced that it will not take part in
the French offensive against the Riffs.
The craft of French imperialism is
splitting on the rock of the Rifians'
defense. The French soldiers sent
from France are not eager to kill or
be slaughtered by a foe that is de-
Tending its native land and are pay
ing heed to the Communists advice
for determination with the North
Africans.
Blacks Fight Blacks.
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Rifians are Senegalese and Arabs,
and the French military authorities
are finding it increasingly difficult to
induce these black troops to work up
enthusiasm to kill the Rifians, who
like themselves, are colonial peoples
who have been enslaved by the
French imperialists. Many Of the
troops fighting the Rifians are Sene-
galese troops which were forced to
hold the French lines against the
Germans in the battle of Verdun dur
ing the world war.
Most of those in the French foreign
legion, now opposing the Riffians are
Germans, and they too realize that
they are being sacrificed in order to
win mines for the French capitalists.
The natives behind the French
lines would join the Rifian side IL
they dared. Already the Benz Aianos,
near Taounat, are being held back
from Joining the Rifians only by the
French reign Of terror.
Communists Oppose Campaign.
The Communist Deputy Doriot, who
accuses Mashal Lyantey, the military
dictator Of Morocco, Of having pro-
voked the Rinian war. declares he
has new documents showing the Pom
care and Herriot governments are
responsible for the antagonism of the
Riffs. He charges that French sol
diers are now being killed with rifles
and ammunition sold by French NUM-
ton makers TO Rifhans when they
were fighting the Spaniards. which
were shipped to the Rifaans on the
yacht Sylvia.