The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News. — 1893-01-14 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

THE NEW MISSION TO MOROCCO. The Daily Chronicle, oommenting on the selection of Sir J. West Ridgeway as envoy to Tangier, says indicates Lord Rosebery's intention to press our claims upon the Sultan of Morocco with pertinacity. The article thereafter points out that altogether there are fourteen Powers, big and little, to be dealt with in any settlement we make with the Sultan of Fez. But, happily, as the text of the treety which Sir C. Euan-Smith endeavoured to arrange with Muley Hassan shored, we seek for no exclusive interests. What we tried to get from the we were willing to share with the rest ertSultanhe world. But other Powers may not take the same unselfish view as we do, and wee may arise trouble, as we cannot allow eureelves to be driven out of a trade the annual „hoe of which for all countries exceeds 0,500,000 sterling, of which we hold about £1,350,000. To us it appears clear that our best mores it this matter is to come, in the first place, to frank and full arrangement with France. Whatever France and England agree to in Morocco will have to be done, and we are inclined to hope that, before sending his Special Envoy, Lord Bombay has come to en understanding with , Ribet The Standard observes : At cricket, when luck load, a wise captain tries a change of bowling. Vs is what Lord Rosebery has done, and it must be hoped that the position which the Sultan has hitherto defended with the invincible prowess of mere obduracy and delay will fall before our new representative. It is not a mere question of obWiling satisfaction for the murder of a British abject. This is the occasion rather than the cones of the Mission. The refusal of justice is only a symptom of the impracticable disposition of the ruler of this most picturesquely benighted state. The obstructions which the jealousy or ambition of other Powers may place in the way are a more serious factor in the situation ,• and the dogged resolution of the Sultan to yield nothing to remonstrance or suggestion is due, mrosumably, to a reliance on the abseece of soliaarity on the part of the foreign representatives. It is the common interest of all to disabuse him speedily of this mischievous impression. If matters do not improve in Morocco they must change for the worse. They cannot go on as they are. English diplomacy seeks nothing for itself. It desires to secure benefits for the native population from commercial concessions, by which all European nations will reap equal advantage. It wishes to save the Monarch from the dangers of Internal revolt, which strenuous reforms can alone avert, and the foreign communities from the risks they now run of violence, and from the burdens Lid upon their trade. The Daily Graphic says: Whether the new Envoy (Sir West Ridgeway) will proceed to Fez is not stated. Probably not. 'After the affront put upon Sir C. Euan Smith it would be scarcely dignified for Great Britain to send another Embassy to the remote city in which the Shereef chooses to dwell. None the less, it is to be hoped that Sir West Ridgewly has been instructed to let Sid Torres, the Minister at Tangier, know that we shall insist on the execution of the treaty which was negotiated with the Sultan by Sir C. EuanSmith and afterwards repudiated. Whether it was wise ever to propose that treaty, or to put forward the demands on which it was based, is now no longer in question; but having secured the treaty we cannot allow it to be ignored in the summary fashion adopted by Maley Hassan. Were we to do so our prestige in Northern Africa would soon be at an end.