Show WAR tIAR WARI I IS BLOODLESS Three Nations Quietly Struggle For Control Of Tangier IsEA hEA Set ice LONDON LO Oct 15 lS WIthout Without a I shot being fired tired 01 oi a blow struck f 5 gr great at battle battlo has hos It bec-It been n fought here It has teen been n IL battle battlo for I empire And very few people hae e j inon no n about it Although It ft Involved so Much the tho contest t tas was as as not staged on any scale Just a few men armed with bundles of and maps gathered in an au obscure and up cluttered office In the for tor- for of office Ice building for tor J a awhile i and agreed to I disagree Up tip to no now thea the have been dc The bone of contention Is Iq the thc control ot of o the city of ot rangier In 1 Morocco rocco Important That doc doesn't nt sound ROund ry tant toot Slut But It if OU will get out a 11 you wIsee win will see th thit- thit IL a n tip of rocco Mo-rocco juts out north northward ard until only o n narrow narro strip of sepa sepa- sepa separates separates rates it from GI Gibraltar BRITISH COVI COl nOLo ItOL Now Gib GIb that lock point nt at atthe the lito cuth of 1 Spain aln has h for a hun bun hundred dred veers vears been In British hands Ii 11 the old dav its Ita cannon calnon domi- domi the n ll row waters vcr n-vcr this Spain did n t like Ilke It Back in the early nineteen bun liun Iun- Iun Iund d Frinco nc and Germany cero ere both lokin hungrily at Morocco with lIh its ast vast resources I h French ll t and nd got the upper hind Since Sineo th the war ar with tho French o hao become entirely oly dominant Morocco ht his a sultan ultan and the lie French are 11 his ad RI Re for Morocco cco Is a 11 French col- col o iy oy OlY to bo be more moro and mote moie absorb absorb- absorbed absorbed ed into the French q system But Bit from tram earl cari davs dis tho SpanIsh claim to a sJ sphere of l I nee flee nc cm on n the northern coast Only TangIer was as eluded Up to now t t has been a sort of ot international international- y 7 governed Io cit The Moors rule I it under the tho guidance fit rt French end Sp nl h officers I But Spain w wants Tangier Ier for tor It Its own It would l then h have haie 0 a sot sot- sot oft I Iown ort oft for Gibraltar On the other hand the tho rr French ss Sl siv Tangier be restored to Its real mas ms- ms master ter tho the sultan ot cC Morocco Witch Which as th English say eay I Is rUl pui e ee wash eve evs-a evs ash to the sultan Tangier would soon be a Gibraltar 11 S c The French already hive O the worlds world's bIc biggest arm army They are aro already talking about a Ilg 1 ig submarine ft tl t They alreid I hive 0 so predominant a place In inthe inthe Ih the air that tIn the alarmed alarm British ar are increasing ainS their th lations for military ry airplanes Now It if the French camped In Tangier they would hll hose have eo a place the thel could rouM erect huge orti- orti I with mth J ow r calmo They I he they would hn have 0 i s oft off I for tor theil a fh They y hivo hlo a 11 lair heIr for their sub sub- sub submarines marines marinIs noes That 1 is 19 why England Englan 1 In Insists that thet Tangier continue an 1 I elt citI I |