Show French Unable to Employ Any j New War Methods in Morocco By J. J W W. T. T MASON Written for the Press Difficulties France Is encountering encounter er- er ing in the war against the Riff lUff tribesmen of Morocco demonstrate that no such strides h have ve been taken taken tak tEk en In airplane and gas methods methods methods meth meth- of ot conducting hostilities as have nave been reported since the ending of the world war France has h been unable to conduct any kind of ot of offensive of- of against the Rifts Riffs who are arc quite unfamiliar with modern m methods meth th- th of warfare despite th the tact fact that all the scientific knowledge of fighting gained from the fhe he World war Is at Frances France's disposal The same condition of ot deadlock I prevails In Morocco as existed for years years' during the recent conflict In Europe Neither side can maka maki appreciable appreciable ap ap- ap- ap pro progress ess against the other The Riffs Biffs are located in Jn territory admirably situated for defensive warfare They have mountain passes passeR to shelter them and they are able to make use of guerrilla tactics with great skill Nevertheless the Rifts Riffs have e no considerable number of ot airplanes they do not know the use of ot poison polson gas they have jio no artillery artillery ar at ar- ar tillery Ullery of ot major Importance and they never never have been trained In modern military tactics l If the vast Improvements In use of airplanes and chemical warfare such as are reported from time timo to time were really true Franco France would be in an ideal situation to work a a. miracle In Morocco leaving e. e lastIng lastIng lasting last- last Ing Impression on Europe But ut nothing of the kind has happened France has a larger equipment ot of military airplanes perhaps perhaps- than then all ail the other European nations nations' combined combined com coin certainly In numbers and In technical l efficiency France claims the lead It Is not difficult to send airplane squadrons from France to Morocco for the civilian Premier recently over him him- self France Franc too has developed chemical warfare methods In n keep keep- I ing with modern modem progress so as ns to tobe tobe be her in readiness for any eventuality In n Europe which might threaten Her hel safety The RIff Riff challenge to French sUpremacy su supremacy su- su in Morocco offered France Francea a unique opportunity to show what an enemy of France In Europe might expect If a new war of ot revenge revenge re revenge re- re were started across the Rhine The Riffs are so far tar below the efficiency le iel of ot a European army that it might have been expected expected ex expected ex- ex France could blow over oer with ease and little expenditure 0 of t mone money This was anticipated at the outcome In France for when the tho movement against French forces In Morocco began It va as pronounced In Paris that the affair would be over In a brief SpanIsh Spanish Spanish Span Span- ish troops who had been mablo to subdue the RUs Effs were declared to have been dominated by an inferiority inferior Inferior- i ity complex bu but the French lImy fresh from the tho experience of the world war would show the what modern warfare w was as s like Uke No such uch magical results however however how how- ever have been obtained The Riffs have o challenged the modern war war- mak makers rs of Europe to do their worst and the worst the European exerts ex- ex erts have been able to dp du has ended end nd-I nd ed ed- edIn In a fiasco flasco Airplane bombing of the Riffs Ritts has failed to frighten the enemy whose casualties have been beeh negligible The employment Of chemical offensive against the tribesmen has encountered ob obstacles obstacles obstacles ob- ob which have made poison polson gas turn Into laughing gas from the standpoint of ot the Riffs The argument that conditions condItion of ot warfare in iii Morocco are rc not the saine as conditions In Europe has little weight for tor the next war In Europe will VIII be as dIfferent from the last war as the last war was different from rota It Its Its- predecessor fIor I What Shat hat the world war to have demon demonstrated was the ut utterly utterly ut- ut terly exterminating n ting possibilities of br ti t 1 A 1 j f ti A fiU future warfare The Riffs Ritts have dla- dla proven this argument If the Riffs have been able to counteract th the use of ot chemicals and airplanes as exterminating Instruments certainly certain certain- ly Europeans In the next was war will willbe willbe b be able to do the same came That is to sa say civilization v will not be blotted out even If it another world war comes A is new world wo-Id war will work wo-k havoc and destroy lives and property like the last but the world will survive it Therefore those statesmen who are their policies on the Improbability t of ot civilization ion allowing another great war to be fought are building on sand Another war In Euro Europe e will not destroy Europe and so Eu Europe Europe EuL Eu rope will let let It come COniO If come it must i i r l J. 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