THE MOROCCO AGREEMENT.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1285, 14 November 1911, Page 5

THE MOROCCO AGREEMENT.

DEBATE IN THE REICHSTAG. FEATURES OF THE AGREEMENT PUBLISHED. By Telegraph— Press Association—OoDyTictal Berlin, November 12. The Moroccan debato has been concluded in the Reichstag and the agreement referred to tho Budget Committee. Herr Frank, Socialist, declared that the Crown Prince's action emphasised the necessity for the complete democratisation of tho Empire beforo the Crown Prince camo to the Throne. Herr Bebel (Socialist leader) said thera was no proof England had approached Germany in a hostile spirit. Tho Socialists had always pleaded for co-opera-tion with England. Tho "North German Gazette" semi-offi-cially announces that it became Herr von Bethmann-Hollweg's duty to deliver a second speech in the K-eichstag in order to prevent Chauvinistic utterances injuriously affecting foreign relations. Notes by M. Jules Cambon, French Ambassador t>o Berlin, and Hc-rr von Kider-len-Waechtor, German Minister for Foreign Affairs, elaborating tho agreement arrived at between Franco and Germany on tho i Moroccan question, hnvo been published. They show that Franco will welcombi.the execution by • Franco-Germiin syndicates of.public works in Morocco. •Disputes not settled diplomatically are to bo referred to a tribunal on The Hague model. Franco will nrgo the Moroccan Government to open the port of Agadir (to which placo Germany dispatched the warship Panther) to foreign trade.