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...Capital of the French protectorate over Morocco, a French court martial sentenced to death last week a German who was perhaps the most striking Occidental in the Moroccan war between Abd-el-Krim and the French (TIME, May 11, 1925 to June...
...condemned, Herr Josef Otto Klems, born in the Rhineland, later a French Lieutenant, finally Chief of Staff to Abd-el-Krim, asked last week that he be sent into life exile on Réunion Island, where Krim is now enduring that fate. The Court Martial replied that Herr Klems must suffer the fate of a deserter from the French army, ordered him shot...
...last the Sultan [Abd-el-Krim], gave me another wife, a mule and a house. . . . One of my wives, called Fat'ma, as half of all Arab women are, has a son, whom I have called Mohammed. . . . My son, I hope, . . . will never learn the evil ways of what you call civilization. . . . The only world fit for a man to live in is the Mohammedan world...
News came last week that Abd-el-Krim, famed "Napoleon of Morocco," now exiled by his French captors (TIME, Sept. 20) upon Réunion Island in the Indian Ocean, a remote Elba, has turned for recreation to dictating his memoirs to a secretary who is also one of his guards...
Proud, always remote and exclusive, even from his own Moroccan people in the days of his "Sultanate," Abd-el-Krim is reported to hold scornfully aloof from the 172,000 inhabitants, mostly Creoles, of Réunion whose chief diversions are rum-swizzling and cinema-going...