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...Paris, the French Government surprised everybody by sending Marshal Henri Philippe Benoni Omer Joseph Pétain to Morocco "to assure in the best possible condition utilization of the reinforcements sent to Morocco and confer with Marshal Lyautey on all eventualities and on measures to be taken in order to insure success...
Marshal Pétain is the third senior Marshal of France and as such outranks Marshal Lyautey, the French Resident General in Morocco, who will continue to be the supreme French civil authority in the Protectorate. "My duty," said Marshal Petain, "is to coordinate the reinforcements which are being sent to Morocco continuously. Those going from France will land at the Casablanca and those from Algeria will proceed directly to Taza. The question is to "use them actively in the area...
...Taza came within an ace of being captured, but a strong counteroffensive relieved the former, and a hectic battle was continuing for the latter, from which all females were evacuated. Marshal Lyautey, the President General and Commander-in-Chief, telegraphed Paris that, unless more troops were sent, he would decline to be responsible for any situation which might develop. Losses suffered by both sides in the fighting were heavy...
...Cabinet appointed General Stanislaus Naulin in charge of military operations with the object of relieving Marshal Lyautey of the intolerable burden of administering the country and directing the war, and to enable him to concentrate on nullifying the disconcerting Riffian propaganda...
...Rabat, the Premier was met by Marshal Lyautey, French President General. Sultan Mulai Yusef, for whom the French exercise a protectorate and who is nominally the autocrat of all Morocco, granted an interview to M. Painlevé. Through interpreters, the Sultan said : "You have my salutations. Your visit gladdens me. It means that France has interested herself in Morocco with all her heart...