The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-12-24
RELIEF EASES TENSION
 OVER MOROCCO
Food and Cattle Bought for Hungry Tribes
 and Farmers
nx HO KING

 tUnitea Press Stan eEresponuentl Paris, Deo. 24. tUP- Economic relief for French North African dependencies is going forward today after a series of conferences n which Albert Sarraut, expert colo nial administrator. played on out standing role.
 The North African coordination committee, under saTTAut, $ puy' mn large stocks of food and cat tlc for hungry tribesTnen and tarEa- CTS. In addition every ettort IS ne' inR made to reduce toteign trade barriers which are stining Moroc' can economic endeavor.
 Throughout November, Sarraul held conferences with his colleagues on ways and means of bettering the lots of natives in Morocco and othei OlIrth African areas, Simultaneo ously Gen, Auguste Nogues, military gov ernor of Morocco had to deal witt Q tenaO political situation resultinl in wldespread manifestations anc uprisinvs which led to several death' and the arrest of the leaders ot thS North African Star anti-Erench or ganiaAtion.
 industry Has Collapsed
 Experts on African colonial ad' ministration believe the pfesen' tense political situation largely t duo to the collapse of Moroccan ia' elllstrv and commerce folloWii1i worldwide trade depression coupled with unfortunate climatic condi' tions which have deprived iasg' sections of South Morocco of at adeauate rainfall during the pas
 Morocco !s on essentially agri' cultural country and tn the post war years It's population was en- couraeed to itensify the inajol agricultural crop which was wheat At the height of the world crisil ln i0S9 the Moroccan wheat outpu totaled 2i,000,000 bushels and y 1884 attained nearly S0.0Oo,0V' bushels but in ioSe the production fell to two.thirds of the loS4 figure This created Q tremendous svrplu which could not be exported ans which the country could not use Such production was out of All pro portion to the populatin. In 1883 th' population was estimated At o,0O0, 0O0 while the ioS0 census shows al increase of i,2ee,000. At this rate {! is estimated the population VII have doubled in 90 years.
 Rapid Rise In 3 Years
 The world crisis caught Morocco during poSt.war expansion wneii all branches of industry were wei on tho upgrade. one of the basi industries, cement, had Q proauo tion increase from 06,000 metric ton In, 1920 to 2Oi ,O00 tons in i0SS. Coa production rose from coco ii1etri tons in ie30. Electrical output m creased from b7,000,000 kilowat hours to iis,000, 900 in ieS6.
 The whole of Moroccan indus trial production wes orientated to ward foreign markets. In this wa the wheat production increased 10 beyond the needs of the country an' when foreign markets gradual dwiniled, Morocco was forced int on autarcliy for which it was les prepared than any other country.
 During this period of faulty m ternatlonal exchange, other coun tries were able to parry tho blow D concentrating on their anterna markets to Q certain extent or evei to turn their attentions to thei colonies. Morocco was unable 10 ~ thls, The internal market iS Of th most primitive kind and on tn other hand all Moroccan product enter into direct competition witl French markets. There lies the car of Q problem, economic II, origil which Is poisoning the political ~ inosphere.
 Debt Lead Piles Up
 "signs of indebtedness are imak Ing themselves apparent iii q classes and the 'feliah' is unable ' contribute his share of revenue! An moreover there Is conflict Of com petition on the labor market pc tween Native and European" note HFsayinond Hoffherr and Robei Morris in Q recent report on th revenue contributions in Morocco.
 "The fail of real estate values ha diminished considerably the huyif, power of the agricultural population and In certain regions natives hay mortgaged up to 70 per cont Of the farinlandg."
 Tn one southern tribe there VI even on epidemic of diyorces, hul bands trying to get rid Of ehe wives in order to get back frol the latters families the dowery the had paid for them. In the town also there is c heavy depressio especially among the artisan clas As a result the fiscal dueB alcne- without counting the increasing coI of iiying--are proving to be c heav burden on the Moroccan population