Formal peace negotiations began last week at Oujda, Morocco, between two Franco-Spanish plenipotentiaries (General Simon and Senor Olivan) and the Foreign Wazir (Minister), Si Mohammed Azarkhan, of the long embattled Riffian Sultan, Sidi Mohammed Ben Abd-El-Krim. (TIME, April 19 et ante.)
Wazir Azarkhan, bright-eyed, perpetually smiling, clad in loose flapping Riffian garments, arrived in a rattletrap motor sent into the Riff to fetch him by the French Government, and promptly showed himself a master at diplomatic higgling, an art known in native Riffi slang as...
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