FRANCE: Caid El-Hadj

At Fez, Capital of the French protectorate over Morocco, a French court martial sentenced to death last week a German who was perhaps the most striking Occidental in the Moroccan war between Abd-el-Krim and the French (TIME, May 11, 1925 to June 7, 1926.)

The condemned, Herr Josef Otto Klems, born in the Rhineland, later a French Lieutenant, finally Chief of Staff to Abd-el-Krim, asked last week that he be sent into life exile on RĂ©union Island, where Krim is now enduring that fate. The Court Martial replied that Herr Klems must suffer...

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