SITUATION IN MOROCCO.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19215, 2 January 1926, Page 9

SITUATION IN MOROCCO.

EFFORTS TO SECURE PEACE. A PROMISING OUTLOOK. COMMUNISTS SENT TO PRISON. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received 10.25 p.m.) Sun.—Router. PARIS. Dec. 31. M. Cachin, Leader of the Communists and M. Doriot, a Communist, member of the Chamber of Deputies, have been each sentenced to 13 months' imprisonment and fined 3000 francs. Several others have been imprisoned on charges of inciting soldiers to disobedience in Morocco. Replying in the Chamber of Deputies to M. Cachin with regard to the visit to Paris of British Captain Gordon Canning, the envoy of Abd el Krira, with whom M. Briand refused to treat, the Premier explained at length bis refusal. Ho said that Captain Canning had no official mandate to be sent to Paris. At that very moment, said the Premier, the French authorities had secured possession of bundles of propaganda which was intended to stir up the revolt of the Moslems against France and Spain who were endeavouring to bring about a real peace. The situation in Morocco, said M. Briand, had considerably improved. The Moroccans themselves were policing the frontiers. Ten thousand families had returned to their # allegiance in order to escape the terrible cruelty and tyranny of Abd El Krim, who was in no wise qualified to speak for the tribes, particularly the Djebalas and Riffs with whom Franco and Spain preferred to negotiate and with whom it was hoped shortly to arrive at a satisfactory solution of the matters in dispute.