Mr. Walter Harris, in a -long letter to the Times,
has characterized the British scheme as impractical and unwise. Tangier' is too small a unit to be administered independently of the rest of Morocco. It could not provide the necessary .funds. Its Moslem population must not be cut off from their spiritual and temporal head, the .Sultan of Morocco ; Britain would have to defray the cost of international administration and would be entangled in endless European complications. It is very easy to dispose, as the Times did in its leading article of Saturday last, of most of Mr. Harris's points. The desire to preserve the power of the Sultan in Tangier when he is completely controlled by the French, both there and in 'the -whole of the rest of his dominion, would hardly, one imagines, console the Moors ; while there is no reason why Tangier should not become both a prosperous seaport and a delightful winter resort for visitors, well able to provide sufficient revenue for a simple administration. Yet it must be admitted that a tripartite administration, -attempting municipal government in three languages, is not an-inviting fate for any town.
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