MOROCCAN AFFAIRS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 117, 8 November 1911, Page 5

MOROCCAN AFFAIRS.

THE GUIDIXG PRINCIPLE. By Gable —Press Association—Copyright. Paris, November fi. M. Oiillaux, Minister far Foreign Affairs, states that the guiding principle of the negotiations was that position oecunied in Central Africa could n"it he regarded as final. It was a farsighted policy for many European Powers to prepare to exchange. The agreement was entirely satisfactory to France, and Germany releases Morocco from the heaviest, mortgages wherewith she was burdened. France, subject to the condition respecting economic equality, can extend her action over a country more vast, fertile and populous than Algeria or Tunis. FURTHER PAimCtJLARS AND CRTTICrSM. Received 7. 11 p.m. Berlin, November 7. Ormany is pledged not to interfere with th« Franco-Spanish negotiations, whilst France promises not to oppose Germany's ultimate acquisition of Spanish Guinea. Corsica anil Oobey Islands. Moreover, French revolutionary rights in the Congo State are waived in favor of any ultimate settlement by all the Powers interested. Criticisms mostly follow party I'm The Socialists and Pan-Germans unite < .different grounds, eulogising Herr Lind qui>t's and Herr Banehelmann's indi pendenoe. The Radicals argue that now is the opportunity to nil-ike a Wow for responsible and even Parliamentary Government. The Chauvinists deeply mistrust Dr. Solf.