MOROCCAN AFFAIRS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 57, 29 August 1911, Page 5

MOROCCAN AFFAIRS

SPANIARDS LANDING TROOPS. By Cable—Frees Assujciatio*-Copyright. Tangier, August 27. The Spaniards have landed, for the troops at Alcazaar, a mountain battery of four guns and 213 artillerymen. FRENCH PROTECTORATE PREFERRED. Madrid, August 27. The Moors are active in Beni. It is said that .in the country beacon fires, summoning tribesmen, have been lit. The Spanish Commander at Alsucemas reports that the eastern Riffs are disposed to favor a, French Protectorate. Berlin, August 27. The Frankfurter Zeitung predicts a settlement of Moroccan affair on the resumption of conversations, as it has been Germany's wish to leave France a free hand in Morocco, receiving compensation elsewhere. Madrid, August 27. A suggestion that France should establish a protectorate in Morocco is regarded as a violation of the treaties. The Government is endeavoring to obtain a settlement by an international negotiation. ' Moors attacked Spanish surveyors near Melilla, and two whites and two natives were killed. THE MOROCCAN CRISIS. NO DESIRE FOR WAR. , Received 28, 11.30 p.m. Herr Kidderlen Waechter, who is visiting Chomiaux, interviewed, declared that neither France nor Germany wished for war. Had France respected the spirit and letter of the Algeciras agreement, all would have been well, but French commerce had been unduly favored over Genman. outbreak: of Anglophobia. a frank interview. Received 28, 11.40 p.m. ( Berlin, August 28. There is an outburst of Anglophobia in a section of the German press, based on an outspoken criticism of Germany's Moroccan policy contained in an interview by an anonymous English diplomat, in the Neue Freie Presse. Anglophobists attribute the interview to Mr. Fairfax-Cartwright.