FRANCE AND MOROCCO.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 80, 28 December 1907, Page 12

FRANCE AND MOROCCO.

! Paris, November 12. All the galleries of the Chamber of Deptt* tics were crowded to-day with people anxious to listen to the debate on Morocco. There was not a full attendance of deputies,'but the Ministry was well represented. Counb Boni do Castellane opened the debate, and - in commencement .drow •an ■ unsatisfactory picture 6f the pSfeißiotff'df this' l troops;J4"U; you withdraw thorn," ho said, "European^ will be massacred; if vou keep them they, will die of sickness," He gave tho'Govern- . ment the choice of exposing Europeans or French soldiers to death. Ho then compared tlio situation of Franco with that of the other Powers, "Franco taking' all the* risks and the others reaping the benefits, and for what? To re-establish .order which had never existed. As for • Spain, her position was not much better, and the whole of the Riff was under the control of tho Protender without Spain being capable of interfering. After sticking a few moro pins here 1 and there into the Government, the orator admitted that tho Ministry was not responsible, but' he".wanted to know, what»was to happen," and asked, the Government to saj li'ow they intended to extricate themselves ..from the Moorish dilemma. " ~ M. Trouin, the Algerian deputy, followed and occupied tho tnbuno. for five minutej without socuring.tho attention of tho House. M. Vaillant, who succeeded him, was praotically tho only speaker openly to attack tho Government: This,' however, was done with the old-fashioned accusation of a war in the interest'of tho financiers, which' has long sinco been dropped .by serious critics. With a general vituperation of all single intervention, M. Variant's 1 war cry., was • "Interna* tionalisation" for Morocco. A very different tone was. taken: by tho polished M. . Deschariel. "It is ho time for looking back," lie exclaimcd,, and plunged into a consider;*- ' , tiori of the present._ : "What have you done, and what do ' you intend, to',do?" ho said. "Hero is where, we are r , and where are you going to lead us? A colonial policy ought not to bo Separate from,a general, policy, and our general policy does not permit of_ our starting a colonial venture." M. Deschauel's remedy was ' a . local. native; policy for Morocco, that is,. to use tho olements on tho spot; After rapidly indicating a few more difficulties in'the way, the orator, concluded by deprecating the uso of theso embarrass, ments for party purposes, as had become toe ( much the fashion, arid by hoping that tin 'Government would bo able to satisfy t-lx; House. ■ \