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Each took a pen, dipped, scratched. By their dipping and scratching they validated in perpetuity a Franco-Spanish pact exiling Abd-el-Krim, famed captured Sultan of the Riff (TIME, June 7), to the island of Réunion or Bourbon...
Meagre despatches announced last week that Mohammed ben Abd-el-Krim, recently surrendered famed "Sultan" of the Riff (TIME, June 7), will be "exiled honorably but without favors or hardships on the island of Madagascar" by his Franco-Spanish conquerors...
Since the balmy isle in question which lies off the coast of Portuguese East Africa, would cover an area equivalent to that of an elipse passing through Manhattan, Des Moines and Richmond, the exact whereabouts of Krim's exile were but vaguely indicated...
Unquestionably the prestige gained by the Cabinet from Abd-El-Krim's defeat (see p. 12) as well as the Right's desire to save the franc aided Premier Briand in securing his vote of confidence 320 to 209. All fiscal debate was thereby postponed for another week and the Cabinet's overthrow again avoided by a hair...
...Krim finance his war so long...