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MOROCCO 



Convolvulaceae, it is a native of 

 tropical America. The leaves are 

 heart-shaped, alternate, and with- 

 out teeth, the flowers large and 

 funnel-shaped. See Convolvulus 



Morning Leader, THE. London 

 daily newspaper. Started, May 23, 

 1892, from the office of The Star, 

 it was incorporated with The Daily 

 News, May 12, 1912. 



Morning Post, THE. London's 

 oldest daily political newspaper. 

 Established by Henry Bate, Nov. 

 2, 1772, as The Morning Post and 

 Daily Advertiser, and edited by 

 him from 1775-80, its early con- 

 tributors included Lamb, Cole- 

 ridge, Southey, Wordsworth, Sir J. 

 Mackintosh, Arthur Young, and 

 Mackworth Praed. In 1795 it was 

 acquired by Peter and Daniel 

 St jart for 600. It passed into the 

 hands of the Cromptons, paper 

 manufacturers, in 1849, when Peter 

 Borthwick became first manager 

 and then editor, being succeeded in 

 1852 by his son Algernon, after- 

 wards Lord Glenesk, who became 

 proprietor in 1876 The latter be- 

 queathed the proprietorship to his 

 only surviving daughter, who in 

 1893 married the 7th earl Bar- 

 thurst. It was sold to a group of 

 Conservatives in 1924. 



Its editors have included Sir 

 William Hardman, 1872-90 ; Alger- 

 non Locker, 1895-97 ; J. Nicol 

 Dunn, 1897-1905; Fabian Ware, 

 1905-11; andH. A. Gwynne. The 

 later success of the paper dates 

 from the reversion in 1881 from 3d. 

 to its original price of Id., but 

 during the Great War it was raised 

 to 2d. See Lord Glenesk and The 

 Morning Post, R. Lucas, 1910. 



Morning ton. Village of co. 

 Meath, Ireland. It stands on the 

 Boyne, 2 m. from Drogheda. From 

 it the family of Wesley, or Welles- 

 ley, to which the duke of Welling- 

 ton belongs, took the title of earl, 

 still held by the duke. Richard 

 Colley, M.P., who took the name 

 of Wesley on succeeding to some 

 estates, was made baron Morning- 

 ton in 1746, and his son Garret was 

 made an earl in 1760. The 2nd earl 

 was the statesman known as the 

 Marquess Wellesley. 



Mornington is the name of the 

 largest of the Wellesley Islands. 

 Queensland. It is situated at the 

 S. end of the gulf of Carpentaria. 

 Another Mornington is a watering- 

 place of Victoria. A third Morn- 

 ington is a suburb of Dunedin. 



Moray, CHARLES AUGUSTS Louis 

 JOSEPH, Due BE (1811-65). French 

 statesman. He was born in Paris, 

 Oct. 21, 1811, being, it was sup- 

 posed, an illegitimate son of Hoi- 

 tense, queen of Holland, and so 

 half-brother to Napoleon III. En- 

 tering the army, he became a 



Due de Morny, 

 French statesman 



cavalry officer in 1832, and, known 

 as the comte de Morny, served 

 in Africa. In 1842 he was elected 

 ^H^M^Mmm deputy for 

 Clermont-Fer- 

 rand, as a sup- 

 porter of the 

 government. 

 He took part, 

 however, in 

 J^^^fe the coup 

 gfj|: I d'etat of Dec. 



M 12, 1851, and 

 became Napo- 

 leon Ill's first 

 minister of the interior. He was 

 president of the Corps Legislatif 

 from 1854 onwards, fulfilled a mis- 

 sion to Russia, 1856, and was made 

 duke in 1862. He wrote several 

 vaudeville pieces, under the pseu- 

 donym of M. de St. Remy. He died 

 in Paris, March 10, 1865. See Frere 

 d'Empereur : le due de Morny et 

 la Societe du Second Empire, F. 

 Loliee, Eng. trans., 1910. 



Moro (Spanish, Moor). Ma- 

 homedan people in the Philippine 

 islands. Numbering 277,500, one 

 half are in Mindanao, the other 

 mostly in Palawan and the Sulu 

 archipelago, with offshoots on the 

 Borneo coast. Mainly of Indo- 

 nesian stock, already Moslemised 

 when they arrived prior to the 

 Spanish conquest, they betray 

 Arab admixture, and were for- 

 merly addicted to piracy. 



Morobe. Town of New Guinea, 

 formerly Adolph Haven in Ger- 

 man New Guinea. Situated on the 



shore of Hercules Bay in the nar- 

 row E. portion of the island, it is 

 one of the chief harbours. 



Morocco. Country of Africa, 

 since 1912 a protectorate of France. 

 It lies W. of Algeria, with a coast- 

 line along the 

 Mediterranean 

 Sea and the 

 Atlantic Ocean. 



The High, 

 Middle, and Anti- 

 Atlas ranges cross 

 the country N.E. 

 from Agadir, the 

 Morocco arms highest areas ex- 

 ceeding 15,000 ft. in elevation. The 

 Rif , a much lower range, flanks the 

 N. coast. The parallel ridges of 

 the Atlas form part of the great 

 system of fold mountains which 

 stretches discontinuously across the 

 world from N.E. India and includes 

 the Alps and Apennines ; for this 

 reason N. Morocco is physically 

 European in character, and Africa 

 may be said to begin at the edge of 

 the Sahara. Perennial streams, the 

 Moulouia (Muluya) and Sebou 

 (Sebu), drain the N. slopes. S. is 

 the Sahara, and the S. streams, Ziz, 

 Dra, Guir, terminate on the desert 

 edge. The S. side of the Sebou 

 valley is forested. 



Agriculturally and commercially 

 the country is in a state of tran- 

 sition. Colonisation by Europeans 

 is actively encouraged, and ex- 

 perimental gardens and nurseries 

 have been established by the 

 authorities. The cultivation of 



Morocco. Map 01 the North African protectorate of France, with coast lines 

 on the Atlantic and Mediterranean 



