NEWS OF THE WEEK T HE "Acte General" embodying the results
of the Moroccan Conference was signed by the representatives of the thirteen Powers at Algeciras on Saturday last. A summary of this document with copious extracts is given in Monday's Times. The main provisions as regards the Police and the Moroccan State Bank have already been made public. We may note, however, that the rank-and-file will be recruited from Moorish Mussulmans and commanded by Moorish Kaids, France and Spain supplying, in round numbers, some fifty instructors and officers to assist in the organisation of the force for five years under a Swiss Inspector-General, who is to reside at Tangier. The final sitting of the Conference was marked by an interchange of cordial compliments and con- gratulations, and by Tuesday the exodus of delegates had ended. In the opinion of experts, "honours have been easy" between France and Germany, so far as the immediate and local objects of the Conference are concerned. But by her failure to shake either the Franco-Russian Alliance or the Anglo-French entente, Germany has lost rather than gained ground in the great game of European diplomacy.
