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Franco-Spanish troops, continuing their recent offensive against Abd-El-Krim from the South and East (TIME, May 17 et seq.), were astonished to discover one morning last week that the enemy had vanished in the night, that white flags were aflutter where Riffian machine guns popped when darkness fell. After conducting for five years one of the most stubborn "native revolts" of the present century against the encroachment of "civilized powers," Abd-El-Krim apparently decided last week that his jig was up?sued for peace, surrendered unconditionally...
...loose Riffian garments. One was the Sherif Hamedou Quedzani, chief of the Sanadas tribe, the envoy through whom the final details of submission had been negotiated. The second Riffian, a plump but well knit man with a shrewd impassive face and hard luminous eyes, was of course Mohammed ben Abd-El-Krim...
...most cogent comment that the current Independent can make on the capture of Abd-el-Krim and the impending collapse of the resistance of the Riffians to the French forces in Morocco is that Spain must have learned that great resources and abundant population are necessary to successful schemes for colonial empire. That is all true enough; the Riffian episode has been a trenchant comment on Spanish weakness; but if it had been only that it would not have been as much in the head-lines...
...Arabian Nights and a portion of the spirit of Mohammed's fierce armies coming in contact with the dreary military regime of hand-salutes and travelling mess-kitchen and courses in tactics. Abd-el-Krim himself was responsible for no small part of this drama. Instead of merely dismissing unsatisfactory subordinates, he blew them from the mouths of cannons; he offered rewards for people's heads; generally he behaved as an Oriental chieftain should, and was not at all ridiculous, because he was successful as well. He is in the hands of his enemies now. Even though...
Former Sultan Mulai-Abd-el-Hafid (1908-12) first recognized the peculiar fitness of "Mokri the Blind" for this post after he himself had become wearied by the necessity of personally inspecting hundreds of quite unpresentable maidens, merely because custom decreed that the Sultan alone of men should actually look upon the women with whom he might elect to consort. When it was noised about that "Mokri the Blind" had gradually developed his sense of touch to a point where it was almost equally discriminative with the Sultan's practiced eye, the entire responsibility of making a preliminary choice among...