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Show MOORS LAUGH WHILE EUROPE IS SQUABBLING Bolshevik Threats That All Islam Will Revolt Frighten Allies TANGIER, Morocco. Sept. 2. (By The Associated Pn ss . Spain is torn w ith .motion bec ause Trance and T.n,--l.iul are about to meet in London to discuss Tangier and Moroccan affairs I generally; without Inviting Castilian diplomats t participate In the dellh Ir rations. British and French statCsjheri are agitated about the ontereuce, as are also French and British- commercial concerns with a desire to engage in 'development work In backward countries: coun-tries: But with the true fatalism of Islam. Is-lam. Tangier rests peacefully In its walled garden-" and laughs at the bickerings of the Christians who hai" I been fighting a Lout Morocco for more than three centurV&s and still find I themselves in hot w ater in spite of the agreements made in the Algedras i conference which gave France a pro-tectorate pro-tectorate over central 'and aouthern and eastern Morocco; established 0 Spanish zone of tnflueftci In the 'north, and created an international 'one whe h comprises Tangj r and Its immediate environs. I his international .cine has no , been a great success, it has engendered engen-dered as much ill feeling as have m-ternaiional m-ternaiional t ettlemcn ts iti China and (other backward countries. Commercial Commer-cial and political Jealousies have nourished, nour-ished, while Hi, Arab.- sat calr.ilv bj land watched Luiopeaii' squabbh j Spain's efforts to maintain hersell In her cone of Influen brought abo H I such disastrous military operation-' against the Moroccans that Spanish governments have fallen at short intervals in-tervals for th last is men bs. and ; British and French politician:- have ! let it be known that Spam's inability Uo keep her zone quiet makes it im-peratlve im-peratlve that same steps be taken tw ! protect the rest of Morocco again -t the sprend Of the hostile spirit which prevails against European domination in northern Morocco. With Afghanistan. Ttirkoy, India. Arabia and other Mohammedan coun- trlcs in fermanl and Lolsh'ik threats jthat all Islamic countries will unite in opposing European control and en-clrnle en-clrnle the Mediterranean with revall which will finally b' extended to the I Far East, unrest in Morocco has demanded de-manded carefUl attention from European Euro-pean chancelleries. Every effort has been made to get the United States interested In the movement to quiet . European differences as to how affairs 'should be handled in northern Africa. The Arabs hail the European dissension dis-sension with great Joy and boast that Christian influence will soon end in north Africa. They even predict the return ol the Moors (p south Kur- oo |