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...Department of State, writer of official notes to kings, ministers, directors, and potentates of the world, last week despatched a memorandum directed at a handful of U. S. citizens who have been piloting French airplanes in the war against the Riffs in Morocco...
...memorandum was merely a warning. It called attention to a section of the revised statutes which forbids the enlistment of U. S. nationals in foreign military ventures within the U. S. or in territory under its jurisdiction. (The U. S. has by treaty extraterritoriality jurisdiction over its citizens in Morocco...
...hinge largely on the question of where the U. S. aviators enlisted in the French cause. A number of Americans, former members of the Lafayette Escadrille, have enlisted in the "Sherifian Air Force"; that is, the French Air Force, but nominally the Air Force of the Sultan of Morocco. The U. S. statute, if applicable, declares that persons making such enlistments are guilty of high misdemeanors punishable by fines up to $1,000 and imprisonment for not more than three years...
...breakfast sausage, short and plump and slightly curled, not to mention a bit blistered at the side from too much frying-that is how the Riff must look to the man in the moon when he swings over Morocco. And if he had listened carefully last week he might have heard the sizzling sound of frying...
...last week saw plenty of fighting in Morocco. Along the northern concave side of the sausage which is Mediterranean Coast, the Spanish made a landing and bit out a little piece of enemy territory near Ajdir. The troops were embarked at Melilla to the east and cruised along the Riff coast for two days with convoying battleships, both French and Spanish, shelling enemy works. After two feints, one morning the battleship Paris steamed into Alhucemas Bay and began to shell the Riff positions at the main beach. For four hours the bombardment with 12½-in. guns continued. The Riffs...