Let us first of all congratulate the French and Spanish
on the extraordinary success of their whirlwind campaign in Morocco. Within three weeks they have mastered the greater part of the Riff country and Abd-el-Krim has surrendered unconditionally to the French who now have him in their keeping. Certain tribes still hold out, but the war on the grand scale is ended. Abd-el-Krim was not only the head but the life and soul of the Riff con- federacy. The Tangier correspondent of the Times says that the French and Spanish Governments ought to extract from Abd-el-Krim and to publish documents which will prove that Abd-el-Krim was falsely and callously advised to continue the war by Europeans who had commercial interests in the Riff. We hope that this will be done. We may also hope that France and Spain will behave with the generosity which they no doubt recognize will be the most profitable as well as morally the best policy in Morocco. The maintenance of even a minor war in difficult country is a very expensive thing.
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