MOROCCAN CRISIS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1221, 1 September 1911, Page 5

MOROCCAN CRISIS.

FRENCH MINIMUM. AMBASSADOR INSTRUCTED. fly Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Hoc. September 1, 0.15 a.m.) Paris, August 31. It is semi-officially announced that M. Jules Cnmbon, French Ambassador at Berlin, is asking Germany for a mora precise exposition of her standpoint in her Moroccan demands, in order to provent (hn recurrence of incidents disturbing to the harmony of the two nations. St. G'ambon, it is said, is also intimating tho irreducible compensation to l;o offered in the Congo for a complete German withdrawal in Morooco.

A NEWSPAPER WARNING. London, August 30. Tho "Westminster Gazette," in an article headed "Britain as a LightningConductor, " warns Germany 'oi tho possible dangers which might follow a sudden switching on to Britain of tho impatienco and irritation which tho German press has hitherto vented upon France. Commenting on the Kaiser's speech E,t Hamburg, the "Gazette" adds: "The Navy is for uso more than for commerce and tho colonics; it is a condition of our existence. We are obliged to meet tho efforts of other Powers with additional efforts of our own." THE VIENNA INTERVIEW. London, August DA. Tho Foreign Office states that no British diplomatist was responsible for tho alleged interview that was published ill the "Niue Freie Pressc."