FRANCE AND GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 140, 16 December 1911, Page 5

FRANCE AND GERMANY.

THE MOROCCAN NEGOTIATIONS. ANOTHER PEEP BEHIND THE SCENES. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Received 15, 10.40 p.m. Paris, December 15. The Comte de Mun opened the FrancoGerman dtbale. The Chamber was crowded. He delivered a telling speech, the effect of which was that previously, in the history of France, the nation had lost colonies but always with weapons in hand. It was now different. M. Deselves. who was much interrupted by laughter and ironical cheers, said that Germany resolutely refused to overrate the Conference of Algeciras' powers, and stated that if another conference were called she would insist on the re-establishment of the status quo created by the Algeciras agreement. After France had refused to cede any part of Morocco, Germany asked for the whole of Gaboon and the Congo between the ocean and the Sanga river, France receiving Togol.ind and a strip of the Cameroons. Tension was created when France refused. Germany then suggested that she should be given access to the Congo river, and afterwards proposed to divide Morocco into two zones, one in which Germany would have the advantage. The outline of the ultimate agreement only emerged in October. Spain was now asked to pay an equitable price for the benefits conferred by the Franco-German agreement. The Comle de Mini's interpolation was negatived by 448 to 98.