The Moroccan correspondent of the Times says than there is
calm throughout the Protectorate, but he adds that he cannot find any equivalent of the optimism which is expressed in Paris and Madrid. Confidence, he says, has not withstood the failure of the French deputies to vote the Budget, the rumours that France has new colonizing ambitions, and the fall of the franc. We greatly regret that the French have refused permission for medical help to be sent to the Riffis. It seems that the Riffis, whose villages are regularly bombed when fighting is going on, have no medical service or supplies. This must mean dreadful suffering and we wish that the provision of medical help by neutrals could be regarded as a matter which humanity requires and which ought not to be affected by any abstract considerations _about the status of the tribesmen.
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