and Supply From Our Own Correspondent, Paris, June 21.
What has Morocco cost France in money? M. Rierre Taittinger, Deputy for the Charente Inférie ure, in summarizing the contents of official documents recently issued by the French administration in Morocco, comes to the conclusion that the outlay does not represent more than Frs. 1,500,- 000,000, or about as much as five days' war expenditure. If alt the Morocco votes in the French budget were added up, we should have a total of some Frs. 3,000,- 000,000 supplied by the taxpayers of France, but a very large share of this money represents the ordinary expenses of garrisons, and even had there been no Morocco to protect, the same troops would still have had to be maintained elsewhere. The expenses of expeditions against the warlike tribes in the interior are all that can really be put to the debit side of the account, according to M. Taittinger, and he makes out that these expenses form about a third of the total, that is to say, rs. 1,000,000,000. Assuming that the pacification of the country will be completed in another two years, and that it will be necessary to spend another half-milliard for this purpose, M. Taittinger arrives at his figure of Frs. 1,500,- 000,000 as the amount that Moroc-ce has cost France. It is distinctly cheap, especially as Morocco is not only providing for its own internal development, but is contributing Frs. 46,000,000 a year towards the military expenditure—a very handsome contribution, secing that the total Budget estimates do not reach Frs. 300,- 000,000..
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