SPAIN IN MOROCCO.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 593, 23 August 1909, Page 7

SPAIN IN MOROCCO.

.WARSHIPS'TO SHELL THE' COAST \h VILLAGES. (By Teleeranh.-rmis Association -Coprrlcht'l > " ' • V Madrid, August 20. The Spanish Government is sending two naval divisions, to Mehlla to shell tho coastal villages) whence , the Moors are harassing the Spanish troops^ SPAIN, THE SULTAN, 'AND THE RIFFS. Before undertaking the punishment and sub#Vu tließiSs, Spain vainly appealed to the Sultan Muloi, Hafid, to take over the task.- It .was, expected that Spain's subsequent military measures against the Riffs would , arouse ' anti-Spanish \ feeling m Morocco; but this .expectation' does not seem to have been realised, for, according to '/The Tim«T» coi- , respondent, tlio educated population of Morocco, including, tho Maghzen, realise that the-Biff has long been derelict, and'that tho bultan had neifliei actual nor nominal author ty in those district,.'; On- the other hand there seems to have been no expectation of 'v hat has actually .occnrred-viz, that l he ififfs would put up such a successful fight as ■ *°r™° q T thS dSS*** 111 * of the Swinish army, of. over 30,000 men, mentioned in todays cablegram. > f 'fhe correspondent of "Tho Times" lemaikswn'. 1 ? aS « .Propolis of Spam for tho tostptfttion of order in tho neighbourhood of her African possessions aio concerned, the hultan vjould have been uise to give them his for they appeared to bo both just and advantageous, but so jealously does he guard what he understands to ba tho integrity of lns>imtiy that he flouted this item, among many others, of tha proginmme IS G ° V ° rnm - ent dn "? .J7 he i. o as b^ ca what "'"ny foiesaw, rti\- *?* Sp /', ni<!h Mlmst<!l himself raoie than hinted would ens-ie The Spanish Government, failing to obtain env hooo even of mi«!!\ el J ora . tl i on °K the f'toatlon, bi-en d f to t^ 0 , lnlo t « ra r 6 conwdernhon the necessity of doing for themselves what the Saltan refuses to do-namely, to restoie order In the lmmeclintft npighbouihood of then allow tho situation to 'remain in stntu ouo h preposterous, and. a, the 4 Ae«Uon affects he? alone, so loner ns her piogramme Jβ locilly fonfmed no objections can be mode '■ of. order bhee' •-.: ■:;:; ;-.. ; -;for--'all;.by: restorinir' it. riorficlf. : ■: '5: : : ■ .•' ■ ft ■;•;:; to .realise-that ■••;;> vy ■ -thc^position; ■ whdi : ; he. v has.: adopted towards ,:.-. : .\!:vv;;-^Bri7Ppe.je.:-Bnfen/»Ble.vand-. , Hiat;.hfc',muei : cohfin» • ■■.';%: AK lll «/i|S ner B 1^ to : govern, his. own \r-^--:::---cputitrTrra.ta^,whichj^itt:;mite;of'many;:tiinlte;- : V V r,:;;^eas,byno ; means incapnble;of'liccomplishing : v :: -v,; : —*?th/-«ae,.-reiraraoto;-theVinte>ceta::-6f foreign