On Tuesday Marshal Petain left Paris for Morocco and M.
Painleve issued a statement about the French plan of campaign. Marshal Petain will stay a considerable time in Morocco, during which he will draw up with Marshal Lyautey and General Naulin the further plans for the large campaign which has already begun. His special concern will be the difficult matters of guarding the lines of communication and of feeding and supplying the troops. His object will be to bring the Riffs to battle in places where the great mechanical superiority of the French Army can be used to advantage. So far as the new French offensive has gone, it has been successful. Franco-Spanish co-operation has at last become a reality. We imagine that Marshal Petain's real intentions are not to follow an elusive enemy into extremely difficult country, but to make it impossible for the tribesmen to take any action against the safety of the French Protectorate which would be in the least likely to succeed.
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