THE Wairarapa Age MORNING DAILY. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1911. THE MOROCCAN SITUATION.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10415, 8 September 1911, Page 4

THE Wairarapa Age MORNING DAILY. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1911. THE MOROCCAN SITUATION.

The brief cable items wfoAdh come to (hand from day to day are eagerly scanned .by tine pubKc, and the position wiiiidli ha® aaisen over Morocco iisi causing intense anxiety tJurougjhout the Briitiisih Empire* There i& no iroom for doubt but .tibia* inhere is a growing hatred iin Germany against rthe (British people, and; the Kaiser mid his subjecte are • waiting on3y a dfovouirable opportunity to attempt itto wrest ttihe pride of tlbe isea and Itihle control of the comimeroe of the 'wonld from Great Britain. The design® of Germany upon Morocco (hiavie been .temporarily tlhwarted by the intea-vienitfon of Great Briiitain; /hut itihere is no knowing what measlures may be adopted in the near future /bo .remove the ohstaoles wihioh Ihiave ibeon created. Writing from! Magador jm- Jiuly 12th, Mr Alan. Ost-! lor, the special correspondent of the "Daily Expnes/s," saiiid:— "Germany means to nave .and to hold not Agadir .alone, .bult practically all! the fertile land south of Morrooo. The arrivall of the Piaimthier at Agadair,miuicih as it surprised Europe, was no surprise to the isoones of business men who are- hard at work emlbedding the claws of ithe Germain, eagle in Southern Morocco. They had .heen expect-1 ing it for lait least two months. Monlto ago, German, frms began to buy Hand all round Agadir—not only in the , little smport town, but inland as wedll. They are. .buying now,! wherever thley can find a native to iStell them land. Tarudamt, the capital of the Suis oonnltry, lias always heem _ scaled against whiffce mien. An Englishman visited it forty or fifty years ago, and banely escaped .with, his iMfe. Sinoe thien, only one wihite man has .been to Tarudant. He was a German—Dr Dorpinigbaos; and he went there about laix months) ago. He I represents the great firm of Maim.esmann Brothieria, wftuo have hem ae- i quiring lands aOl do\m> the coast, ] from Casaiblanioa to Agadir, and inland to Marraikiesh. One- cannot but odimire the" faith which German investors 'and business mien hla-ve in the determination of their Government.

In their miioidis the doubt that Gk many may withdraw —or may e miade ,to withdraw—-me-vOT upper - rise. 'Agadiiir,' said one of V j£ m to im to-day, 'is destmned to r a German seaport on the And it has been so df for (mtomitihs—perihaps year g j^ & practicality.. Giorma.ny e . of tectorial ©.xpajr ie grtubMmg. Whierev has'turned to a port w • ht( . a iussM 00atog if for her growing fleet, isne hitlierto been fended oft. bvf goes to show that hwe r to make a stand. rp^ ie aiXnDUni t of .money that has. ber^ n poured dmlto ,the .country; * lw *P r /ies!ents made .to south-coast kau X* and governors; tlie lavish exto wjiicli German partnerships parrying with them German protection) have ;been made with natives here; the steady arrival of,streams of hardrheaded German business idem; and, above a'll, the rapid purchase of ever yavaiillaMie acre of land —a!U these things point the same way."