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...expenditure of 5,869,000,090 francs ($212,204,400). Though this represents the expenditure of 1,300,000,000 more francs than last year, the new budget was hailed as a "retrenchment." This paradox resulted from the fact that much of the equipment purchased last year for the Moroccan war (TIME, June 7) has not yet been paid for and accounts for the excess of this year's budget over last year's. Le Senat- ¶Welcomed back into its ranks Senator Victor Henry Bérenger who resigned last week as French Ambassador...
...sleek French packet Amiral Pierre steamed southward through the Mediterannean last week her first cabin passengers regarded with awe a squat, hawk-beaked Moroccan with a short bristling black beard who appeared now and then on deck always accompanied by two armed French guards. Spain and France had poured out hundreds of millions in gold, and tens of thousands in lives to place the sardonic Moroccan with his brother, their wives and suite upon the Amiral Pierre. Not six months ago Mohammed ben Abd-el-Krim and his brother Muhammed were holding the Riffian fastnesses of Morocco against that master...
...that I called upon General Silvestre of the Spanish Army at Mellila in the interest of my tribe, the Beni Uriaghel, who wanted 100,000 pesetas ($15,000) to keep the peace that year with the Spanish. This was the custom of the strong Moroccan tribes at that time. The Spaniards have many times bought peace...
...moment tranquilly upon the troop of French soldiers, who stood rigidly at attention to receive him. With a swift and surprisingly graceful movement he swung off his horse and strode over a pile of stones and past a half dead fire to where General Ibos, Commander of the French Moroccan division, stood waiting. With a bow entirely courteous but neither hurried nor deferential, the fallen Sultan placed himself at General Ibos' disposal. After ten minutes of discussion as to the disposition of the captives' wives and personal suite, who he insisted should be brought from the hills to accompany...
...higher nobles of the court habitually asked his advice when choosing an additional wife. Europeans, while deploring the tendency of "Mokri the Blind" to examine candidates in silence?thereby precluding any investigation of their intellectual powers?nevertheless have honored him as one of the least corrupt of high Moroccan officials. Late despatches reported that no Occidentals had contracted typhus...