MOROCCAN FASHODA.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 635, 12 October 1909, Page 5

MOROCCAN FASHODA.

. FRENCH GENERAL RETIRED. SEES DANGER FOR SPAIN AND FRANCE. .[ .. IS IT. GERMANY? IDy Toioeraph-Press . Association-Copyright.) . Paris, October 10. - M, Briand, the Premier,'lias placed Ocnoral tl'Amade, Into , ComninndoMii-Chicf of »the French forces in Morocco, on the retired list for stating in an interview .with ft representa- ' tive of.- tho newspaper "Matin" that the situation for France was extiomely. perilous. . , The Spanish, said tho General, had already soijicd Nador, and would soon bo forced to take Taza, which would bo the.Morocdau Fashoda. The General further said that, the' Spanish success had aroused the ■Spanish military party, and that King Alfonso did not conceal , hia desiro to seek compensation for his lost colonial empire. fashooa! .-.' !' The Fashoda qncstion brought ..France and England, to tho verge of war in 1898; In that year Captain Marchand; after an adventurous journey from the French Soudan, reached Fashoda on the Nile,, and hoisted the French flag there and at certain points on the bqbat River. Sir Herbert Kitchener, who haiT just captured. Khartonm, invited Marchand to withdraw, and. hoisted the -English- and Egyptian .flags. Marehand refusing, the matter was referred to London and Paris,. The French were at first inclined to hold that, the AngloEgyptian occupation of the Soudan having been suspended by tho Mahdist domination, it was open to thorn to mako a settlement on iho Nile.' It was cloarly proved, however, that they had been warned on several occasions that this would not be permitted, and after .eomo. hesitation, due probably to tho doubt as to whother they would have,tho support of Russia, if they stood firm, they viclded, and tfle Marchand expedition was withdrawn. :• ■ ■