To what will the occupation of Casablanca lead That is the question which thoughtful people in France are ing themselves. It is hardly likely that France will simply withdraw when order has been restored. She has shed chi the blood of her soldiers and sailors spent a good deal of money, for: which she will naturally want some return, even if there is no more fighting. The French and Spanish troops cannot leave the town and its European inhabitants to the mercy of the savage tribes in the neighbourhood. As Comte de St. Maurice, the foreign editor of "Gil Blas," remarked to me, it is simply the beginning of colonization on the usual lines, It is the history," he said, "of the Americans in-Cuba, the French in Indo-China and the English in Egypt, repeating itself in Morocco. They all started by fighting the natives and ended by keeping the country. The great producing nations must expand at the expense of others. This is the plain trath, however much we try to conceal it under the cloak of civilization. Hitherto the only result of the use of force by civilization at Casablanca has been to let loose anarchy mong the Moors and enable the strong. to prey upon the weak, and yet writers in the newspapers are talking sbout the barbarity of the Moors, when, after all, they are only defending themselves, grazed If we bad in-been sufficient, but the presence of 3,000 troops shows we intend to penetrate some little distance st any rate into the interior, and when we have done this we cannot go away. We were to have occupied Ujda tensporaril but we are still there, and it wil be the same with Casablanca." Meanwhile the Government commits itself only to assertions that it is absolutely opposed to a war of conquest.
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