MOROCCAN AFFAIRS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 95, 12 October 1911, Page 5

MOROCCAN AFFAIRS.

FIRST PART OF THE AGREEMENT. By Cable —Press Association—Copyright. Berlin, October 10. The first part of the Moroccan agreement has been agreed to and initialled. FURTHER NEGOTIATIONS. Received 12, 12.5 a.m. Berlin, October 11. Herr Kiderlen Waechter and M. Cambon have commenced to exchange views. Writing on August 30, the Paris correspondent of the Morning Post stated that Mr. Jules Cambou, French Ambassador to Germany, was instructed to demand from the German Government a definite and detailed statement of Germany's attitude in regard to Moroeco which would leave no room for any possible misunderstanding in the future or for any recurrence of friction between the two countries. In return for such an arrangement France was prepared to make certain definite territorial concessions in the Congo. In well-informed circles it is said, continued the correspondent, that France may even be ready to admit concessions which would cut her Centra] African Empire into two parts, retaining only for her troops the right of passing through the territory to be ceded to Germany. Such a solution would meet •with little approval from French opinion, and already there is a growing tendency to complain that France is abandoning colonies which, thanks to French money and enterprise, have already a very real and definite value, for hypothetical advantages in Morocco, where years of effort will be required before any practical results are obtained. Such a solution would almost certainly, according to the view held in colonial circles, be prejudicial to British interests, and result in an Anglo-German conflict in Africa.