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Painlevé Definite. War Minister Paul Painlevé announced late in the week that the Riffian pourparlers in Paris (see "In the Riff") had resulted in an agreement to hold formal peace negotiations between representatives of France and of Abd-el-Krim at Outdhjda, Morocco. M. Painlevé stated that the Outdhjda conference would assemble "as soon as possible, probably within a fortnight." He let it be made known that France does not recognize Abd-el-Krim as "Sultan" but merely as caĩd of the Beni Ouriaghel tribe. The French will accordingly invite...
Five thousand Riff tribesmen danced and cavorted among the Riffian hills. "Mulay Mohammed ben Abd-el-Krim," they shouted, brandishing their swords, "Sultan el-Islam, dj'der ba-ba Spanol...
...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...
...make peace in Syria and Morocco because we cannot. In both areas France is continuously the attacked, not the attacker; and there is no guarantee that peace, if made now, would last three months. . . . Abd-el-Krim has cost us too dearly for us not to fight on until we can conclude a lasting peace. To withdraw from Syria would be to deliver the subject peoples there to massacre and misery...