THE MOROCCO QUESTION.

Gisborne Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1437, 25 April 1905, Page 2

THE MOROCCO QUESTION.

DELCASSE RESIGNS AJND THEN .WITHDRAWS.

SIGNIFICANT HINT TO, THE AG .GRESSIKE GERMAN'S,

By Telegraph—Press AssociationCopyright.) Recci.vod - 4.29 p.m., Aprili 23. PARIS, April 23, Owing to the Morocco debate;, M. Delcasse has resigned., He has been strongly, .urged to, reremain iii office, and has promised ,to reconsider his decision. There are indications that ho Will remain. Received 12.10 a.m., April 24. : PARIS, April 23,i Fresident 'Louibet has persuaded M, Delcasse to withdraw, his resignation, M, Itouyiier, and the rest of the Cabinet insisting on entire sympathy/ with M, Delcasse’s foreign .policy;, . .

Received 10,8 p.m-.,. April 22., LONDON,, April 24

•According to the Echo’s Paris correspondent, President Loutoet overcanfe M, Dolcasse’s hesitation, saying" there .was n,o't a so.ul who. did not regret the resignation, which) was ■regarded as a mistake, to be interpreted as the result of pressure from German newspapers, ” The resigntioh,” he stated, f‘would makoyouc successor’s task extremely, difficult ; y.our task is all the easier because continuance of office will show, ,our anxiety to follow essentially'_a pacific to remain faithful too all our engagements and conventions-, and prove that We are incapable of yielding .to the semblance oE pressure.”

The Times says that M. Delcasse believed that from the force of Socialist 'attacks and other incidents ia the Chamber of Deputies, Germany might suppose that he had lost the full support of -his colleagues and a majority, of Parliament. He hail previously, sacrificed his own judgment too that o£ his colleagues by, initiating a gour-parlcrs, Germany’s neglect .to officially, notice the overtures while semi-official organs continued the campaign, confirmed his view that -the ovcrifluirea were likely too he miß.constoruod, -Received 9.16 p.m.y April 24. •French advices from Rome show that the German proposal for an international conference on the Morocco Question is foredoomed to failure. The Daily Telegraph Paris correspondent reports that the immediate cause of the Delcasse trouble was his fidelity tq the Russian alliance. Tho Socialists are sick of the compact with Czardom, and seized the misunderstanding with Germany as a pretext for attacking J»I-j Defc.asse: ,