Walter Burton Harris

Walter Burton Harris ( born August 29, 1866 in London, † April 4, 1933 in Malta ) was a member of MI6 and the Times correspondent in Morocco.

Life

Harris was born as the second of seven children of a wealthy businessman and shipowner Frederick W. Harris. His older brother was Frederick Leverton Harris (1864-1926), this was in 1914 elected in the constituency of East Worcestershire for the Conservative Party in the British Parliament. His younger brother Edward Austin in 1932 deputy chairman of Lloyds Bank. Walter Burton Harris attended the Harrow School and spent a short time in Cambridge. With another younger brother Clement Harris (1871 - 1897) Walter B. Harris undertook journeys, and at age 18 he had circled the globe. He became a member of the Military Intelligence. He visited Constantine Opel, India, Egypt and Arkhangelsk. He traveled with William Kirby Green, a later Deputy Consul in Rabat, Salé and Albania. Harris was gay oriented and once married to Jessie Green, the niece of Green.

Tangier

From 1886 Harris in Tangier. He witnessed the installation of the French and the Spanish Protectorate in Morocco. He reported in The Times and books on the impressions of a European in Morocco. In 1892 he visited Yemen. From 1912 Tangier was international zone under the contract to French Morocco. As a result of Rifkrieges, which was conducted in Spanish Morocco with an infestation strategy of Hugo Stoltzenberg and in French Morocco with a Aushungerungsstrategie by the military occupation of the fertile parts of the country, came to 1925, approximately 5,000 to 7,000 refugees from the Rif to Tangier.

From May to June 1925 there was a smallpox epidemic in Tangier, which exacerbated the prevailing there refugee problem. 1517 vaccinations were performed.

Rif Republic

When Charles Gardiner Harris traveled to the Rif Republic. He traveled through regions of Wazzan and Chefchaouen. There he acquired the concession of money creation in the Rif Republic. In September 1923, he spoke at the Foreign Office of the German Empire before as an arms dealer and wanted to buy submarines for the Navy of the Rif Republic. The Foreign Office rejected any mediation. In Spanish shipyards then supervised a German naval officer who Kika called himself, the submarine production according to plans from the German Reich .. Between 1923 and 1927 he conducted some interviews with Abd el-Krim and his Foreign Minister Mohand Azerkane that he published in the Times under the name Harris.

1933 Harris died of a heart attack on Malta. His body was transferred to the cemetery of the Anglican St. Andrew 's Church in Tangier.

  • The Land of the African Sultan: Travels in Morocco ( Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1889)
  • A Journey through the Yemen ( William Blackwood, 1893)
  • Tafilat: The Narrative of a Journey of Exploration to the Atlas Mountains and the Oases of the North - Western Sahara ( William Blackwood, 1895)
  • From Batum to Baghdad by way of Tiflis, Tabriz, and Persian Kurdistan ( William Blackwood & Son, 1896)
  • Morocco That Was ( William Blackwood & Sons, 1921)
  • France, Spain and the Rif ( Arnold, 1927)
  • East for Pleasure: The Narrative of Eight Months ' Travel in Burma, Sian, the Netherlands East Indies and French Indo- China ( Arnold, 1929)
  • East Again: The Narrative of a Journey in the Near, Middle and Far East ( Butterworth, 1933)

Publications in The Times

  • Spain 's Moroccan War. Moorish Leader's Challenge. Charges of Cruelty in: The Times, May 30, 1922
  • Conditions in the Rif. English Travellers' Report, in: Times, December 3, 1924;
  • A Rifi Appeal, in: Times, June 26, 1922.
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