A CRITICAL STAGE.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1222, 2 September 1911, Page 5

A CRITICAL STAGE.

■ fr MOROCCAN NEGOTIATIONS. FRENCH MINIMUM, By Telegraph—l'ress Association—Copyright Paris, August 31. Mr. Jules Cnmbon, French Ambassador to Germany, has returned to Berlin. Negotiations regarding Morocco liavo readied a critical stage. Several newspapers assert that the maximum concessions iu tlio Congo that .Franco is prepared to givo is 100,000 square kilometres (3S,(>OU squaro miles) less than Germany demanded, ANGLOI'HOBE ATTACKS. Berlin, August 31. - Viennese journals, despito Uio denial of Sir Fairfax Cartwright, British Ambassador to Vienna, continuo their Anglophobo attacks in. conscquence of the recent interview ascribed to him. The "Frankfurter Zeitung" declares that the interview was assuredly launched with tlio object of disturbing Anglo-Ger-man relations. Although Britain had shown no friendliness over tlio Morocco question, sho had mado it clear that an agreement acceptable to Germany would bo agreeablo to her. AN IMPERIAL INDISCRETION. Berlin, August 31. The German newspapers, by open disavowals or silence, continue to emphasise the tactical inconvenience of the Kaiser's allusion at Hamburg to further strengthening of tho Navy. 'The "Frankfurter Zeitung" urges greater reserve in Imperial speeches, and adds: "In a inoment of political tension an imprudent utterance is capable of misinterpretation, and affords opponents of peaceful relations an opportunity fo stir up Lroublo, and provoko irritation."