CONTEN TIS. PAGE A COMPANY OF TANKS. BY MAJOR W. H. L. WATSON, D.S.O., D.C.M., 63, 214, 401, 550, 673, 828 AN AIRMAN'S EXPERIENCES IN EAST AFRICA. BY LEO WALMSLEY, 633, 788 ANTRANIK. BY LIAISON,. À PROPOS DES BOTTES. By C. E. MONTAGUE, A TALE OF TWO CITIES. BY J. A. STRAHAN, BELGIUM IN 1919. BY CHARLES WHIBLEY, BY THE WATERS OF BABYLON. BY MAJOR-GENERAL SIR GEORGE 441 778 149 653 528 725 FOLLOW THE LITTLE PICTURES! BY ALAN GRAHAM, FROM THE BALTIC COAST TO THE DENMARK BORDER. BY H. G. "GREEN BALLS." BY PAUL BEWSHER, IN IRELAND TO-DAY. BY SOUTHERN LOyalist, SIMON. BY J. STORER CLOUSTON, THE ARMENIANS. BY EDMUND CANDLER, THE BACK NUMBER. BY OSWALD WILDRIDGE, THE BIBI, BY BATOURI, 42, 185, 345, 478, 604 "THE FINDER OF LOST THINGS." BY EDMUND CANDLER, "THE FRIEND OF FA HIEN." BY EDMUND CANDLER, 412 THE MAN THAT WAS A MULTITUDE. BY ALFRED NOYES,. THE STORY OF OUR SUBMARINES. BY KLAXON, ONE of the effects of the Great War has been the arresting of Colonial development: the call for men, the lack of transport, and the general dislocation of ordinary life has necessitated the abandonment of many enterprises all over the world. To this the French zone in Morocco has been a marked exception. When war broke out in August 1914 it found France the recognised protector of practically the whole country except for a narrow strip along the Mediterranean nominally administered by Spain, and the very limited international zone round Tangier. The old and corrupt system of government had already passed away, although to outward seeming the country was, and still is, ruled in the The Sultan, Mulay Youssef, elected on 13th August 1912, in succesVOL CCVI.-NO. MCCXLV. same manner. sion to his brother Mulay Hafid, was firmly established on the throne as an absolute autoorat, and issued his dahirs in the time-honoured way through his grand vizier. In reality his powers are practically nil-everything is subject to the approval of the Commissaire Resident, General Lyautey, who, appointed by the French Government in April 1912, is the real ruler and directing spirit of the Maghreb. The Republic is to be congratulated on her choice; in the person of General Lyautey she possesses not only a great colonial soldier, but an administrator of quite exceptional capabilities; it is doubtful whether any other man could have controlled the situation in such a masterly fashion as he has done since the beginning of the Great War. France, with her very A |