MOROCCO.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 747, 21 February 1910, Page 5

MOROCCO.

FRANCO-GERMAN CONCESSION - RIVALRY. , -

A FRENCH THREAT TO SEIZE 1 CUSTOMS. By'felogratli—Press Association—OoDirlaht, : (Roe. February 20, 5 p.m.) ' Paris, February 19. France' has threatened to seize tho Moroccan : Customs' unless -'the/Sultan Mulai Hafid at an early .'date ratifies the agreement between El,. M'sfcri,.,hisfinals cial agent,- and M. Pichony-Frenoh Minister for Foreign: Affairs.; ■ "Lo Temps" asserts that one of the Mannesmanri brothers (German concessionaries) has gone to :Fez> in order to urge Mulai Hafid to resist the French claims, thus infringing the. German'Goy'ernmentV .declarations / with.;' regard -to Morocco... - ; '.'i-.V-

[In i the' agroement with Tegard to Morocco, Frauje stated ' that • she' was entirely solicitous to maintain the integrity of the Sheerifian- Empire,' and resolved, to safeguard eoonoraio equality .in it, and therefore not'hamper German commercial and industrial interests there. Germany, for her part, stated 6he; was only 'pursuing, economio■' interests -in Morocco, recognising on i the \other ; harid that Franco's special political rinterests there are' closely connected with the consolidation of order and.of internal peace. then not to hinder their several;;' interests - as. -stated ; above, -both Powers declared that -they would not carry', on or encourageany- measure which might , create in their favour or in favour:' of any Power un economic privilege, and that they; would 'seek to : associate their nationals in undertakings the concessions of which those nationals;; may obtain. The big mining concession 'to the; Mannesmanns, who are ..Germans,: 13 held to be a ■ broach -of this declaration; ; The Sultan Mulai- HaSd lately exhibited his generosity or hia diplomacy by, giving ,£833 in aid. of ;sufferors :by- | the French.floods.]'