Tangier Protocol of the international zone remained until its 29 October 1956 reintegration with Morocco, following Morocco's independence that year. After it came into force, the Protocol was also acceded to by Belgium, Netherlands, Portugal and Sweden. Tangier Protocol The Tangier Protocol (formally the Convention regarding the Organisation of the Statute of the Tangier Zone) was an agreement signed between France, Spain and the United Kingdom by which the city of Tangier in Morocco became the Tangier International Zone. The protocol was signed in Paris on 18 December 1923 and entered into force with ratification on 14 May 1924. Starting from 1929,
Bombing of Casablanca (1907) workers aboard—4 French, 3 Italian, and 2 Spanish. Following the insurrection of July 30, 1907, thousands of warriors from the Chaouia, apparently allied with Ma al-'Aynayn, took Casablanca. France, surprised due to poor intelligence, urgently sent for a fleet, which left from Algeria. Saint Aulaire, the diplomat in charge of the French Legation in Tangier, under instruction from Paris, called a number of warships to Casablanca, including: the Linois class cruiser Galilée which was dispatched from Tangier that very night and which arrived on August 1, the cruiser Du Chayla which arrived on August 4 from Toulon.The morning of August