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Formal peace negotiations began last week at Oujda, Morocco, between two Franco-Spanish plenipotentiaries (General Simon and Senor Olivan) and the Foreign Wazir (Minister), Si Mohammed Azarkhan, of the long embattled Riffian Sultan, Sidi Mohammed Ben Abd-El-Krim. (TIME, April 19 et ante...
General Simon and Senor Olivan suggested that France and Spain now held the whip hand over the Riff, and that Abd-El-Krim, if he did not want to be wiped out, must disarm the Riffi, go into exile himself, exchange all prisoners, and, after renouncing his assumed title of Sultan, recognize "the true sultan of Morocco", whom the French and Spanish "guard" in vassalage to themselves...
...these harsh terms Wazir Azarkhan replied with a burst of smiles, arguments, threats, shrieks, and stormy tears. He said that not even Abd-El-Krim can disarm the Riffi, since each cleaves to his rifle as to his wife. He said that Abd-El-Krim might consent to go into exile "after two or three years, when things have quieted down, but not now." He said that the hearts of loyal Riffi are so constructed that they could not possibly turn from Krim to "the French sultan." He spoke uninterruptedly for hours, "sold the carpet" until it could...
...hours together they thus chanted their leader's name like an incantation: "Lord Mohammed, Son of the Slave to the Generous One, Sultan of Islam, Breaker of Spanish heads!" All this they shouted and much more during a week's rejoicing decreed to celebrate the marriage of Abd-el-Krim to the 23-year-old daughter of the Moroccan chieftan whom he deposed (TiME, Feb. 16, 1925, SPAIN), Mulay Ahmed ben Absalem ber Raisul, called by the press "Raisuli," self-styled "Prince of the West...
Such were the tidings in Paris last week when Captain Gordon Canning, official representative of Abd-el-Krim, arrived to initiate pourparlers for peace between the Riff and France (see CABINET NOTES). While Captain Canning dickered behind closed doors with M. Ponsot, the French Undersecretary for African affairs, pressmen drew from other English-born officers of the Riffian delegation many picturesque details anent the Riff...