General Lyautey has been appointed the first French Resident-General in
Morocco, General Lyautey, who was General Lyautey has been appointed the first French Resident-General in Morocco, General Lyautey, who was
born in 1854, served with distinction in Indo-China, Madagascar, and Algeria before his appointment, in 1908, as High Commissioner on the Algero-Moroccan frontier, where he did admirable work both as a commander and administrator. He has since commanded the Tenth Army Corps at Rennes. The terms of his appointment, after setting forth the events which have led up to the establish- ment of the French Protectorate in Morocco, state that in order to secure unity of action all civil and military power is to be vested in a single representative. These powers are to be exercised under the sovereignty of the Sultan in the interests of the French protectorate and with due regard for the treaty rights of other Powers, especially as regards the principle of economic equality. General Lyautey will be assisted by M. Gaillard—the present Consul at Fez, who has spent seventeen years in Morocco—as Secretary-General to the Residency, and the charge of Moroccan affairs will be vested in a new department of the Foreign Office, under whom the Resident-General will be placed. The Times correspondent at Tangier in Tuesday's issue pays a cordial tribute to the ability and character of General Lyautey and M. Gaillard, and expresses a confident hope that under the new regime the oppression connived at or encouraged by the French in Morocco will soon be a thing of the past. He is careful to add that these abuses were never countenanced by the outgoing Minister, M. Regnault, whose firmness and integrity were neutralized by the weakness of the Home Government.
