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Title: The passing of the Shereefian empire
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Ashmead-Bartlett, Ellis, 1881-1931
Subjects: Morocco -- History Morocco -- Foreign relations
Publisher: Edinburgh and London : W. Blackwood and sons
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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lay by him, and there were 14 wounded.The Riffs were in such numbers that they hadbeen able to tear up 500 metres of the Frenchrailway, and twist it round like a corkscrew.Finally, a very workmanlike blockhouse arose there,and another like it a kilometre nearer the secondCaseta ; a partly ruined dwelling west of the firstCaseta was also put into a state of defence, anda great sand-bag fort was constructed halfwaybetween this house and the Hippodrome, roundan iron erection for washing ore—the Labaderos.So there was a defensive post every kilometrefrom the E-io de Oro to the second Caseta. Now Europe connects the Spanish E-iff warwith mining venture alone. In Spain a sectionof the press attacked the Government for gettinginvolved in a war to bolster up mining specula-tions. The same thing was said about a moreextensive war in which England was engagedten years ago. There was probably a grainof reason in both charges; but as in the Trans-vaal, England, so in the Riff, Spain, had wider
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I -^ THE MAR CHIC A. 401 natioual aims. Spains ambition was to create agreat mercantile harbour on a short road to theinterior of Morocco and to Fez. The preHminaryworks towards the construction of a harbour atMeUlla were not encouraging. There is want ofdepth in the roads, and the wash of the Mediter-ranean from the north-west is very strong—andso the harbour works staff turned their attentionto the Mar Chica. This little inland sea is about26 kilometres in length from north to south-east,and sweeps south in a rough semicircle, of whichthe radius from the middle of its northern shoreis about 13 kilometres. It is known in two divi-sions,—the south and south - eastern section iscalled El-Jezireh. It is much the larger of thetwo, and washes the northern boundary of theZeluan plain, till it curls by Nador up toAtalayon, which marks its division from thesmaller but deeper area of Sebka-bu-Areh. Itis cut off from the Mediterranean by a sand andgravel bar varying from 500 to 600 metres

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