FRANCE & GERMANY

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10292, 21 July 1911, Page 5

FRANCE & GERMANY

CABLE NEWS

United Press Association— By Electric Telegraph — Copyright.

THE CONGO DIFFICULTY

BRITAIN TAKING A HAND

(Received Last Night, 11.55 o'clock.)

LONDON, July 20

Cabinet will to-morrow consider the question of the vetoing of the German demands in respect of the Congo. These amount to a complete cession by France of the coast and interior of French Congo as far a- Sanga river, also France's contingent reversion of the Congo Free State under the suggested arrangement, which would add another 200,000 sq-iare miles to the existing 200,000 square miles of German Cameroon territory, while France would retain the hinterland and the Congo communication from thence, to +he Atlantic would be exclusively through Belgian or German territory. The Tirres's Paris correspondent states that although it i* not alleged on -the German sid> that France is guilty of v.ny contravention of the Algeciras ( onveitio-i o' - the agreement of February, ii'oo, Germany is demandirg impossible compensations, of which German statesmen are aware It is not conceivable that the French Government could fir a moment entertain tin so-called compensations for withdrawing the warship from Agadir without the relinquishing of any valuable economic rights secured byGermany in Morocco in 1909. Nor is there a v ord of German guarantees for the better fulfilment of the promise of 1909 to not impede France's acknowledged 'politicu' interest in. Morocco. . Opinion is spreading that Germany desires France as a last resort t*> whittle a settlement to Mulai Hand, ceding tin Agadir enclave to Germany. This would satisfy pan-Ger-man ambitions, and, by directly compromising British interests, would greatly strain the * nglo-French entente. The French newspaper "Le Temps" declares that if the negotiations lead to a deadlock. France's only course would be to appeal to the signatories of Algeciras. A DELICATE SITUATION. MR ASQUITH'S MOVEMENTS >■ AFFECTED. (Received. Last Nieht'i 11.35 o'clock.) LONDON, July 20. Owing to the Veto crisis and, perhaps, more especially the sudden delicate situation between France and Germany regarding Morocco, the Hon. H. H. Asquith's intended visit to Edinburgh has 1 been postponed!