Show i m 11 american citizen in moroccan x alfair f naturalized american citizen A may be said to be at the bottom of the moroccan situation which la Is engaging the attention of searal Fur european ills HIS name Is sic ben all hassan Is a barbir a native of tho the sous sons valley lu in ile took out naturalization papers in this country twenty years ago through a friendship with some prospecting mining engineers whom ho he saved from death learned that the albera An bera valley a region bordering on the mediterranean sen sea was full of toni coal and other minerals such as silver iron ore quicksilver lead and zinc and that the coal was of fine quality and lying in easily mined velus with this knowledge and the conviction that coal deposits in so adan a situation juit opposite gl GI br altar would eventually be very valuable hd ba bought a tract of land ax tending thirty miles along the eastern ahon of Tar tanker trier bay and running back into the mountain districts it is this territory which ie Is the basis of the german interference in moroccan affairs and of the situation which caused the sending of a german gunboat to abadir bought the land from the tribes of the An angberg Ang ghera bera who held it b special letters patent from lulal el husban father of the rece recently deposed sultan lulal pi being nn an american citizen presumed that his hi pun pur h hi civi carried with it the protection or the united states government imi litti the insulted aind arrested his emissaries lie appen ltd ld to secretary knox lie ile was told that the american 4 4 HASSAN 9 man ALL government could noc not protect his 1 property rights protection to his person only assured hassan tia reubon fort corned 1 I A partner ship alth a it german dr who mho lial lied influence at iter ber lin when another of the firms agent t in arre arrested sted he lie ger man prote ion tion got buby at the gormin german and it n german gunboat was tient seat to th thir seaport near est tu to the fla s aan tt rhe gunboat N 1 there and und the tion 4 are I 1 elle i it to chri aten tiie we pence of oil ill europe therefore tin american citizen i balius 4 the tion of having 1 the present situation |