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...French Resident-General in Morocco, is generally considered the most brilliant of France's colonial administrators. His diplomacy in extending French influence among the turbulent Rif tribesmen and at the Court of the Sultan at Rabat, as well as his military achievements in pacifying and extending the area under French control, stands in striking contrast to the British devolution of authority in Egypt and the Spanish military reverses in their own Moroccan...
Naval petroleum reserve No. 4 is about 35,000 square miles in area. North of the Yukon lies a mountain range. North of the mountain range is the reserve...
...English system bears the same relation to the American that the Old World intensive agriculture bears to the large-scale surface cultivation still typical of American farming. In the former case, a small area is carefully tilled, and studied, in order to raise the maximum produce which its natural fertility makes possible. In the latter, whole-sale methods are applied to vast territories, and a fair yield is ordinarily obtained, which rarely represents the full return of which the land is capable...
With the undoubted connivance of the French, the Separatists (those who favor an entirely independent State) have been in control of the whole area since last November and much blood has been shed. At one time the whole affair seriously threatened Anglo-French relations, but, despite British investigations, the Separatists remained...
Three days after the "Pirmasens affair" the green-white-red flag of the Separatists was hauled down by order of the Allies amid the indescribable joy and relief of the people, and the government of the area was placed in the hands of a Palatinate Kreistag Commitee. Great Britain, who, through ex-Foreign Minister Lord Curzon, was the first Nation to protest energetically against the Separatist activities, and who caused an Interallied Special Com-mission to be formed to study the Separatist question, was hailed by the Palatinate populace as their saviour...