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Show MOROCCO IS FINAL HOPE OFjPllSH Foreign Expansion Hiht Follow If D6ns Were Given Chance. LAND OF MOORS IS PIVOTAL POINT Qountry Rich In Minerals and Agricultural Products, Pro-ducts, y ' btIiiedebjo j. hauok! hfADBID, Spain. Again, after foul centuries, the affairs of Spain are eon. teriag in the land of tba Moora, acrosi the strait of Gibraltar. Morocco it moat intimately a Spanish problem Germany and Franca, quarreling avei tbeir disputed "rightg" in Morocco, ar bow for the third time In a decada threatening to involve Europe ia a gen. ami war. Spaia haa its fuJJ abare in tbe imbroglio, and with every move in the game risks internal revolution. Spain holds several email coastal cities ia tbe territory of Morocco, chief among them being Ceuta, in plain view of Gibraltar across the narrowest part of the strait, and Melilla, farther to ths east. Ceuta ia simply a Spanish port, but at Melilla the Spanish claim a "sphere 01 influence" in the-hinterland which amounts to an assertion of suze- raiuty over the Biff tribes that inhabit the region. Spanish capitalists operate iron mines In the Melilla country The Biff tribesmen objected to tbe operational opera-tional and two years ago, a Spaaiab army invaded Morocco and subdued the natives. The war waa go unpopular at home that it led to tbe riots in Barcelona Barce-lona and to the overthrow ef the eon-gervatlv eon-gervatlv government. Tbe present Madrid government recognizes dearly that Spanish national interests demand the participation of Spain ia every diploids, dip-loids, tie- movement concerning Morocco nnd that at tbe same time every act on the part of the ministry will involve the danger ef a domestic revolution, perhaps merely political, possibly one of blood. . Moifteea TJnlnua, Jafwea, m-Ulricas nmeng tbe nations . t of the west.. Ita sovereign is -a aiateaa who rules 'aver the Shersefian empire with tbe absolute authority of civil hw and religion supremacy-.- -Unlike--nil other Moslem monarch, of. the. present day, who must neognixe tbe religious authority of the Skeik ul Islam, tbe saltan of Morocco, ia the bead of the faith as well aa of the state. The .present .pres-ent aultaa, Mulai Hafld, is the lineal descendant de-scendant ia the thirty-sixth generation of Ali, uncle and ton-in-lnw . of . tbe f ropbet Mohammed. Ha came, to the. hrone by virtue of loading a successful revolt against hia brother, Mulai Abd-1-Asia, having had himself proclaimed aultaa at tbe city of Morocco, the so. them capital of tbe empire, in . August, Au-gust, 1907. Six montha later he wae acknowledged in Fei, the northern capital, capi-tal, aad a year later in . Tangier, the diplomatic capital. Ia January, 1D09, be waa formally recognised by the pow-ers pow-ers npoa hia obligating himself to re-gpeet re-gpeet the engagement entered into by hia predee ess in a and the provisions of tbe net of Algeeiraa. Morocco occupies ths northwestern eoraer of tho continent of Africa and ia knows to it people ae Maghrib-el-Aska, or "the extreme west." It ia nearly as large a the stats of Texaa and although a great part of its area is deeert, it supports a population of about 6,000,000 people, a great many of whom are nomad no-mad without fixed hsbitatioa. The people are Berbers, Bedouina and Arabs by racial descent, nnd, there are also a great many Jews and negroes. Fee, the principal capital of ths sultan, haa population of 140.000; Tangier., the K'acipa! seaport, baa about 35.000. e country annually exporta about 411.000,000 worth of products, chiefly barley, eattlo, wool, hide. "Morocco" leather aad poultry. It send over $1,-000,000 $1,-000,000 worth of agga each yea to the - European markets. And all thi in spit of a total' lash of etable government govern-ment or modern transportation facilities. facili-ties. Ajnertcaa ad Council. Ths act of Algeeiraa era tba cutces k of a eonferenee of the powers called ' consider the problema of Morocco, ii-tern ii-tern a 1 aa well aa external. It was re marksbls aa being tbe first European council in which the United State participated, par-ticipated, although the American representative repre-sentative waa instructed that be was pre. eat only because of the Americaa treaty relations with Morocco, and be made tbia clear by disclaiming, after the eonferenee acted, any responsibility oa tbe part of the American government govern-ment for the enforcement of the act. The trouble started ia Sagland. Ear W in 1904 n aerie ef conventions entered en-tered into by tbe British nnd French government ended several iaauee in dispute dis-pute nnd established the much discussed dis-cussed Franco-British entente eordiole. Chief among the eoaaiderations of thi practical alliance were the abandonment abandon-ment of all French preteueione to predominant pre-dominant influence in Egypt aad the upper Nile country, and a reciprocal acknowledgment 'on the part of Great Britain of the rtrorsmaey of French influence in-fluence ia sort hwe.tr a Africa, including includ-ing the Moorish coasts and hinterland. Nobody raised any objections at the time. Eleven months later, the miliary power of Freaee'e ally, Baasia, ia the meaatime 'having been destroyed by ' Japaa, the , German emneror, en a yachting cm lac la the Mediterranean, ' landed la Tangier. aad made a (pee-tseuiar (pee-tseuiar speech recognlxiag tbe complete . and absolute independence of his She- yeofian majesty. Abd-el-Aaia. French Hamfllatod, r The kaiser 'a speech was followed -by such aggressive activity oa the part of ths Germ an govsrnmeat that the French miaieter ef foreign affair was forced (Coetiaued. on. peg 1.) MOROCCO IS FINAL ' HOPE OF SPANISH (ContiBoed from, ,ptg 1. ' to reetg nndcr most hnmiliatlng cir-nawtanraa. cir-nawtanraa. Th Oeynraaa (ailed for "an lnternatinasl conference t dcid tk ota in of Morocco, aad th rjl-taa rjl-taa (npplemeated th el1 with aa Invitation In-vitation for th delegate to aesem-bla aesem-bla ia Tangier. - But th Moorish hotels ar not vary good, and therefor th conference assembled oa January IS. 1006, at Algeetree, la Bp in. a port oa tha eeaat of the strait of Gibraltar, at whleb thr different Moorish irmlet had landed to effect th eoaqnott of Spain in the day when tb crescent waa bright. After several weeks of 3icaioa tba act f Abreciraa wa rtwn at and aignad by tha awr. Thla act provided for tha reform of th internal affair of Morocco and for th uniform treatment tt Europeaa ra vectors. vect-ors. Tb overthrow of rh tk reign-lag reign-lag eKaa by hie brother waa not rec-ogniaad rec-ogniaad aatil ta aaw moo arch bll-gated bll-gated klmeelf t reeyect th act of Algeciraa. But, in fact, tha act bas ot bcea worth the parchment H la written a. Mnlal Hafid ha flouted it by gieiag a German firm, th Mae neeaiaa brother, a blanket mining eon-eeaion eon-eeaion that lap ver aad invalidate all tkr mining oaoaatioaa. Oermaay haa floated it by seising th port of Agadir, oa th wester, oast, a ear enough to Gibraltar to be a menace t th Englihmn. Praae ha footed It by peraiateotly and Quietly pushtug WMtware) th lit tt lU Algerisa t tlemoata. Spain baa flouted it by extending ex-tending it ephr of influence back af Malilla and by aelsing Alraxar. Aa matter of fact. vry n of th European astian wutt a (lie of Morocco, with it rich mineral deposit, de-posit, it productive herd aad flock and ta poesibilitie of It graia field. Eaglaad bald back oalv beeans it haa trad4 its "right" to Praa ia ret am fer Praaea'a abstention from claiming "right" ia Irvpt. that aam Bgynt that balnng to Turkey aad t ruld by Great Britaia. Germany, hedged ia by British diplomacy di-plomacy aad outraged by tha obstructions obstruc-tions th English hv o raftily placed in th way of tba Gerataa indue-trial indue-trial invasion af Aeia Minor and Arabia, Ara-bia, aad furthr lrHtated by th Ear llsk compact with it traditional anamy. Fraae. i determined that if Morocco 1 developed at all it will b by and for tba Oorma. rraaea la Bad. Spain distruttt TTaaee. Tb Preach movement wwttward along th aorth-ra aorth-ra coast of Africa ta a dailv affront to tbe Spaniab in tercet ia nortkeatt . uAMve Tk.HfA.. ts(s la aalv to willing I order it affair a to aid Germaav. Tha Germaa aeirare of Agadir staadt oa th mm fooling a th Spaaiah seixur of A lea tar; both of them are unwarranted ander ta Mt of Algocira. King Alfonso. wha ia Lonrlol reeeat-lv. reeeat-lv. wa interviewed bv Sir Edward Orev. th head f th British foreiga office, but the diplomatic gooaip bs it that tha king protected that h ws ewrle to interfere ia th policy of hi government. Premier CauaW.iaa bat daiaouetrated lueh a williagnem to aid Oermanv, r tt least to act on line of poller parallel to those of Germaav, that tba British and Frrach wuld wl-om wl-om hi overthrow. A a matter af fact, Morocco it Spain' last hope for formga eipaa-ioa, eipaa-ioa, aad tha habit af liviag apoa th nttourre of colon itl poeeeeeieaa ia fear eeatunea old ia Bpeateh statecraft. If Spain were etreg enough bow ta develop de-velop Morocco, or if tb Enron power wer to award tha Moorish conatrv to t-paia aa a neeaibla compromise com-promise of the Fraucw-Oerman quarrel, quar-rel, there might be a chance for a litil prosperity la official eirle at Madrid. It is this possibility that 8paia hopes amy develop tt aeether ehsae for the P-rteaieh. a raaace to etploit tka territory af - lb Moor who ancestor, lee eight eenturie exploited ex-ploited tba Mssurssa of 6oal. teat the a. be a doubt that Spaia eeed lefoim at kern mere that It aeed power abroad. It people peed daeatio first of ll. aad whea they hav va a little wider is.) lig.ee. thy will be atroag enough aad trae eaough to cut out tk caaker of pe H'ieal arruptioa tkat aaw mp the vitale ef a fair country wkoaa beautv aad bounty eatitle it people te proa-parity proa-parity aad power. . - |