LUCKY REBEL.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17057, 11 June 1926, Page 5

LUCKY REBEL.

UNMERITED HONORS

SPAIN SORE

PLEDGE TO TRIBESMEN

LONDON, Mav 31

"Allah has given France victory. You have been misled by one ,man, who now is forced to yield. France will be generous. She will send doctors to hcnl your sick, and seed to restore your crops, and give you peace to increase your prosperity. I ask you to consider France's enemies in Morocco as your own," said the French Resident-General in Morocco, M. Jules Stceg, in a remarkable speech to 6000 of the surrendered tribal delegates at Taunt, couched in the picturesque simple language that would appeal to such an audience, says the Paris correspondent of the Times.

After-wards, there was a native ceremony, in which six bulls were killed, to celebrate the tribes' loyalty to the Sultan of Morocco.

The Tangier correspondent of the Times says that Abdel Krim had been preparing to surrender ever since the abortive peace conference- at Oujda. He ivrole to bis European mining associates and others whose business relations were less innocent, nd after thanking them I for their legitimate aid to the Riff cause. "completely exonerates them of any motives other than philahthopy and certifies that their only' relations with him were such as justified their mutual esteem." These letters might 1 suffice, adds the correspondent, if they were (ho only documents in existence. But unfortunately, some of the recipients had previously displayed such indiscretions in their letters that Krim's certificate of good conduct is entire!v unconvincing. Krim acted with impassive dignity throughout his reception in the French lines.