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...recent Oujda Peace Conference (TIME, May 10) his representatives haughtily refused comparatively liberal Franco-Spanish terms; and though the Riffi had been steadily pushed back since then, Krim himself was expected to hold out with his immediate followers for some time to come. The French Resident General in Morocco, M. Jules Steeg, therefore received with the greatest suspicion last week a message from Krim suing for immediate peace. Not until some 300 French and Spanish prisoners had been freed by the Riffi as an earnest of good faith, did the French seriously prepare to receive the surrender of Krim...
...rose naturally to the lips of a Riffian born in easy circumstances, the son of a Judge, who until about 1917 served as a clerk in the Spanish Oficina Indigena (Bureau of National Activities) at Melilla and grew incensed at the shameless corruption of Spain's administration of northern Morocco under the protectorate convention...
...were put in the field, and eventually an army numbering perhaps 80,000 was assembled, armed with captured or smuggled equipment. By 1924, Krim and his brother had driven the Spaniards out of almost the entire Riff. Shortsightedly they incurred the wrath of France by a raid on French Morocco in which their forces nearly captured Fez. Instead of thereby intimidating France, and?as they appear to have hoped?persuading her to exert pressure upon Spain to grant the Riff autonomy, they instead roused the French to an active fear lest Krim become supreme throughout both French and Spanish Morocco...
Resident-General Steeg of Morocco is reputed to have secured Krim's surrender by promises of immunity; whereas at Paris and Madrid a considerable faction began last week to tout the slogan: "Hang Abd-El-Krim...
...most cogent comment that the current Independent can make on the capture of Abd-el-Krim and the impending collapse of the resistance of the Riffians to the French forces in Morocco is that Spain must have learned that great resources and abundant population are necessary to successful schemes for colonial empire. That is all true enough; the Riffian episode has been a trenchant comment on Spanish weakness; but if it had been only that it would not have been as much in the head-lines...