FRANCE'S DUTY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 33, 29 January 1908, Page 2

FRANCE'S DUTY.

HER MOROCCAN POLICY.

IMPItffTANT SPEECH.

FRANCE'S AGREEMENT WITH ENGLAND.

Received 28th, 9.58 p.m. i\l. Mephen Pichon, Minister of Foreign Allans, wasi warmly applauded for a speech in which he defined France's and spams joint policy as mandatories to Europe to restore order on the Moroccan coastal districts and to establish the police there.

France, he said, would maintain a prudent neutrality regarding Moroccan internal affairs. Morocco would be *o protectorate, ami France would not ae-' cept a Morocco more internationalised than provided under the Algerieas Treaty. Her Moroccan policy would be part of France's general foreign policy. The Republic had regained the position it was entitled to in the concert of Europe.

M. Pillion eulogised the peaceful aU ha nee of the ententes. To link such""a policy with the fate of Ministers only weakened the scope of the Ministers who fell, but France remained. France cleared up the misunderstanding between Britain and Russia. He proceeded:— ".France's policy ought not to, and does not, appear directed against or is intended to isolate anyone. The agreements with Britain and Spain entitled us to act in Morocco, yet we needed the authority to act. Then a complication arose Did they go so far as to be in danger of war j Ido not know, but we, that is, everybody here, consented to a conference, and attended it with a limited programme. We should have accepted no other, and that conference gave our rights a new.baßis." AN INCIDENT OF 1005.

Paris, January 27. It is reported in Paris that in June, 1!)05, the Kaiser of Germany informed Siguor Tittor, the Italian Minister of. Foreign Affairs, that German troopi would enter Lorraine if M. Dclcassc, when Minister of Foreign Affaire, 'succeeded in negotiating an offensive ami defensive alliance with Britain. Signor Tittori informed M. Barrerc, French Ambassador at Rome, of the message/ and he cabled to the. Premier, Ml Eouvier, that he should demand M, Delcasse's immediate retirement and reproach him for not communicating his negotiations to his colleagues,

INTEREST IN GERMANY. Berlin, January 27. In this country there is widespread Interest in the speech delivered by M. Delcasse in the French Chamber of Deputies on the Moroccan question. The semi-official papers are reserving their comments till the termination of the debate.