THE POWERS AND MOROCCO.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1218, 29 August 1911, Page 5

THE POWERS AND MOROCCO.

GERMAN MINISTER'S VIEWS. FRENCH DISREGARD OF TREATY ALLEGED. OUTBURST OF ANGLOPHOBIA. By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright (Km. August 23, 11.35 p.m.) Paris, August: 28. Herr ron Kiderlen-Waechter, German Minister for. Foreign Affairs, is visiting Chamonix. H« declared to an interviewer that neither Franco nor Germany wished war. Had France respected the spirit and letter of the Algeciras Agreement all would have been well, but French commerce had been unduly favoured over that of Germany.

GERMAN PRESS ANNOYED. OUTSPOKEN CRITICISM. (Roc. August 28, 11.35 p.m.) Berlin, August 28. An outburst of Anglophobia has occurred in a section of tho Gorman press. It is based on an outspoken criticism of Germany's Moroccan policy contained in an interview with an anonymous English diplomat in tho "Neue Frcie Presso" of Vienna. ' The Anglophobists attribute tho interview to Sir Fairfax Cartwright, the British Ambassador at Vienna. SPEECH BY THE KAISER. COMMERCE AND TEE NAVY. (Rcc. August 28, 11.35 p.m.) Berlin, August 28. The Kaiser; speaking at a banquet at Hamburg, said commercial competition between tho nations was wholesome, for they, could fight in pe^co. The Navy, which was developing powerfully, represented the Germans' desire for salt water, and he beiievod that tho people of Hamburg wished to see it further strengthened so that no one could dispute the place that was Germany's due.

A SETTLEMENT PREDICTED. Paris, August 27. The newspaper "Frankfurter Zeitung," a National Liberal organ, predicts a settlement of the Moroccan question on the resumption of conversations between Franco and Germany. The paper says it has been Germany's- wish to leave France a free hand in Morocco, Germany receiving compensation elsewhere. SPANISH OBJECTIONS. Madrid, August 27. The suggestion that France should establish a protectorate in Morocco is regarded hero a-S a violation of the treaties. The Spanish Government is endeavouring to obtain a settlement by international negotiation. MORE FIGHTING REPORTED. Madrid, August 27. Moors attacked a party of Spanish surveyors near Melilla. Two whites and two natives were killed. The Moors are active in the Beni Said country. Beacon fires are summoning tho tribesmen. The Spanish commander at Alsucemas reports that the Ensiern Riffs are disposed to favour a French protectorate. SPANISH BATTERY LANDED. Tangier, August 27. Tho Spaniards have landed for dispatch to Alcazar a mountain battery of four guns, and 213 artillerymen. t THE GERMAN DEMANDS. VIEWS OF "THE TIMES."

• In a leading article on July 21 tho 1 London "Times" wrote :-yTho German demands are at last known. They are understood to be surrender by France to Germany of tho whole of French Congo from the sea to the River Sanga, and also tho renunciation in Germany's favour of the contingent .claims of France to the acquisition of the Congo State should circumstances at any time lead to the alienation of that vast and important territory by its present possessors. This is the 'compensation' which Germany demands for the aid which France has given, to the Sultan of Morocco at his express request for the maintenance of his sovereignty and tho restoration of order and peace within a portion of his dominions. The world has been accustomed to largo demands by Germany, but it will hardly learn without extreme surprise of 'pretentions so far-reaching as these. . . . "Germany does not pretond to tender France any real equivalent for tho concession she requires. She. has again and again declared .by tho mouths of her leading statesmen and in her official press that her interests in Morocco are wholly commercial; and it is little more than two years ago since she reaffirmed this statement in the most explicit terms in a solemn compact with France. She does not pretend that her commercial interests have been prejudiced by France. She has acknowledged the 'special political interests of France' in Morocco and lias announced her ies>lvo 'not .to impede those interests.' Nevertheless, she seizes on tho opportunity given her by France's vindication of those 'special political interests' to invito the Republic to hand her over a vast colonial dominion acquired by French energy, money, and blood, and to surrender to her claims over an adjoining territory vaster still, tho possession of which would make her tho dominant Power of Central, Africa, give her one of tho best harbours and coaling stations ou the Atlantic coast, bring her int) immediate contact with ■our possessions at several new points, and cut off British South Africa from tho north. Tho claims to the Congo State which she asks to have transferred to her arc, it may be pleaded, but contingent claims. That no doubt is the case, but when her proximity to Belgium is considered, it is easy to imagine means which might be employed to ensure tho early falling in of this desirable reversion."