* * * .1 , - On Tuesday the new regime
of Tangier under the recent Convention came into operation. Only the Governments which drew up that Convention—that is, Great Britain, France, and Spain—have ratified it, and so the new Administration starts with the great handicap that it will not be able to enforce its authority on the nationals of any other country who live in Tangier. The ever-lively Times correspondent at Tangier goes so far as to call it " a picnic without a majority of the guests and with most of the food missing." But he ends his message on a hopeful note based on the confident determination of the population of Tangier to accept the settlement and to attempt loyally to carry cut its terms. There is also, it appears, considerable hope that Belgium, Holland, and Portugal will not long withhold their ratification of the Convention, and that America also may ultimately adhere.
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