WAR IN MOROCCO.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9619, 12 October 1909, Page 5

WAR IN MOROCCO.

SPAIN'S DEBIGNB. PERILOUS FOR FRANCE. "THE MOROCCAN FASHOOA." United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright. Received October 11, 8.30 a,m. PARIS, October 10. M. Briand, the Premier, has placed General d'Amade, late Commander-in-Chief of the French forces in Morocco, on the retired list for stating in an interview with a representative of the newspaper "Matin'" that the situation for France was extramely paribus. The Spanish, said the Ganenl, had already seized Nador, and would soon be forced to take Taza, which would be the Moroccan Fashoda. The General further said that the Spanish success had aroused the Spanish military party, and that King Alfonso did not conceal his desire to aeek compensation for his lost colonial empire.

"Fashoda" to a Frenchman recalls a diplomatic humiliation. After Lord Kitchener's success at Omdurman, in the Soudan, in 1898, a French force under Major Marchand, which had advanced from the French Congo, entrenched itsef at Fashodi, on the Upper Nile. Lord Kitchener proceeded up the Nile in a gunboat, and warned the French commander that the territory was Egyptian. His retreat was cut off by a British force. The matter was eventually left to the Governments of France qnd Britain to settle by diplomatic fneans, though at one time war between the two nations seemed imminent.