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...whole character of the Moroccan war is one of high lights and shadows, corresponding to this last most picturesque of incidents. The daily press dispatches from the Riff should never bore anyone. The American soldiers of fortune with the French forces ignore the state departments' august disapproval and proceed to the day's fighting like bad boys playing truant. Unreasonable obstinacy displayed by the Riffians in refusing to be intimidated by the comic opera Spanish army precipitates a political crisis in Madrid. A French officer, perhaps a distant relative of General Nicholas Herkimer, directs his command from a stretcher...
Untroubled by mundane developments, the Sherifian Escadrille, composed of U. S. airmen, continued to soar into the Moroccan ether and drop therefrom tons of bombs...
...announced last week that the Mannesmann brothers (German industrial magnates in the Ruhr) had sold their Moroccan properties. The Mannesmanns, Reinhard and Max, now men in their late 60's, eminent industrial metallurgists, many years ago bought up many valuable properties from Moroccan sheiks. These properties were involved in the famous Agadir incident which brought the erstwhile Kaiser down to Morocco with diplomatic complications several decades ago. During the war the Mannesmann properties in French Morocco were confiscated. Now they have sold their property in the Spanish zone...
...political situation in France depends in no small degree on the result of the Moroccan operations. The French socialists declared in a meeting that they would support the Painleve Government only in measures they favored. If the campaign should not go well, the Government faces a crisis...
...newspaper correspondent, writing from Wazzan behind the French lines, thus began his daily despatch on the Moroccan War (TIME, May 11, et seq.) : "One requires no map in order to follow operations in this important sector. One can install oneself comfortably-except for the flies, whose buzzing might be taken for Abd-el-Krim's air service -on a shady cafe terrace and drink cool beer while a friendly French officer explains the situation with a magnificent panorama of mountains stretched out before one for orientation...