BRITAIN AND GERMANY

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 133, 27 November 1911, Page 5

BRITAIN AND GERMANY

THE MOROCCAN NEGOTIATIONS. GERMANY'S AIM. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright, Paris, November 24. The Debats declared that Germany's aim throughout the crisis was not bo much to obtain compensation in Morocco as to break up the entente. The paper adds that the present powerful Germanophilc efforts of a portion of the British Radical press to sacrifice Sir Edward Grey in order to regain Herr von Kiderlen-Waechter's good graces arc bound to fail miserably.

DECLARATION OF 1904 REVIVED. RECENT ARTICLES PUBLISHED. Received 20, 5.5 p.m. London, November 25. Secret articles attached lo the Declar ation of 1904 have heen published simultaneously in London' and Paris. The articles define the territory allotted to Spain in the event of the breaking up of the Moroccan Empire.

The article ensures that whatever other changes occur the three articles of the declaration providing for equal treatment of cables, neutrality of the Suez Canal, and free passage through the Straits of Gibraltar shall remain unaltered.

The assignment to Spain of the noast line of Melilla as far a* but, not including the heights on the right bank of the Sebu will be dependent upon her adhesion to the first and third articles just mentioned, and a promise not to alienate any districts under her charge. The secret treaty also shows that England and France had agreed not to alter the political status of Egypt and Morocco, but if circumstances, compelled any change, the freedom of the Suez Canal and of the Straits of Gibraltar remain intact.

France agreed not to ask for a time limit in regard to the occupation of Egypt, while Britain recognised France's special position in Morocco.

Mr. Lloyd-George, speaking at Bath, hoped the public would not accent incomplete statements regarding Morocc-j until they heard the facts from Sir E. Grew

Paris, November 25.

Le Matin states that M. Delcasse in 1904 accepted the conditions placed on the entente by Britain, because he knew Mr. J. Chamberlain conceived the plan to divide' Moroc:o between Britain, Germany and Spain.

BRITISH NOTE. EQUAL COMMERCIAL OPPORTUNITIES. Received 27, 12.40 un. London, November 26. The Pall Mall Gazette states that the British Note to France, assenting to the Franco-German agreement, includes Britain's- armrovi.l subject to no clause 'of the treaty being contrary to the principle of equal commercial opportunities to all nations; also that the clauses in the Anglo-French declaration of 1004 remain untouched. THE SUVA JNCIDENI. Brisbane, November 25. The Prometheus called at Cairns. The officers gave a full denial of the Suva incident cabled from Vancouver, and say that there .was no foundation for it.

TH was stated that a Herman cruiser called at Suva and requested permission to s"n<l and receive cablegrams from Germanv. The captain of the Prometheus, it is alleged, refused the request, and ordered the German boat to leave at once.]