The German pioneers in Agadir are not the old typo of pioneer. They do not carry batteries of small arms aod fatomatic pistol, the same at the Kiod aod in Sidney Btreet, They know how rose their arms for they have all served in the army. They are vot beard: d like} the pard, for they carry safety razors They all wear spectacles and their dress ly European.
lack of picturesqueness is more toned for, however, by their and accurate knowledge of local philology, ethnology and geology. They have made s close stady of the country which they have-m: out for conquest, One of them is a Doctor of Science bat though he could take profcsaorisl chair to-morrow la a German University, he could also organi and lead saccesstol exploring ex pedition into the Sahara,—Yonoj and energetic, a man of action, very far removed from the typical professor of the "Simpliciesimus" carib cateres, Indeed, none of the Agadir Germans boar apy resemblance, physical or mental, to the absent-minded philosopher of the comic papers. They 1 of them large, strong-limbed, {aces deeply scarred by They are land-roleed, jovial, horser. At night they shake the dead old town roto temporary animation with their healthy German ballade.
They know the Sus country as they know the palms of their hoods. One of te the Doctor of Science,—tan, Yor handed years, been closed months in Tarradant which
toBuropeans. The expert miaeralogiats among them have tapped in the Atlas mountains soaroes of _inexbanstible mineral wealth, principally copper, the export of which alone woold make Agadir a great and prosperous port.
'THR ORRMAN CASE, The Germans defend their action in coming to Agadir by " variety of argomenta. They declare that the dent State. The Soltan, Molei Hafid. is now little better than the Bey of Algiers or the "Emperor" of Anam. The Moorish Government has gone to pieces and Germany has as mach right to some of the fragments aa France, country which, anlike Spain and Por-tegal, has never played ao historical tile in Morocco.
These concessionsires assert that if France gets all Morocco, German com-
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