THE WAR CLOUD

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10423, 14 September 1911, Page 5

THE WAR CLOUD

BRITISH ADMIRALTY ACTIVE ipOAL FOR THE BRITISH NAVY. (Received September 13, 8.5 a.m.) LONDON, September 12. The Admiralty is hurrying a train with twenty-thousand tons of ooal to .the naval depots in Scotland. In addition to the collieries on Admiralty list, other Welsh collieries have received urgent orders for steam coal. LABELLED "URGENT." (Received September 13, 9.20 a.m.) LONDON, September 12. The Admiralty's consignments of ; "Welsh coal to Scotland, Hull, Newcastle, and other ports, tfere sentby • rail instead of by atfe(?)a ton ; -extra cost. The wagons were labelled "Urgent." It is represented that thc> " Admiralty is merely experimenting in connection with rapid despatch. GERMAN RESERVISTS. (Received September 13, 1 p.m.) BERLIN, September 12. ' ' The Naval Reservists are to be discharged in September, as usual, show-, ing'that negotiations with France are (expected to prove satisfactory. . < T TERRITORIAL COMPENSATOR, , ; (Received Last Night, 9.25 o'clock.) IiCXNIDON., •September 13. Reuter, from ian authoritative ■source; states that although the territorial compensation is momentarily in -the background owing to Germany's ■claims, France, proposes to cede "territory to the extent of two-thirds «>f France, enabling Germany direct access to the Congry River, thus facilitating ian eventual railroad communication to 'German East Africa. France -will give Germany access to the sea at tlhe b?iy south of the Spanish territory bf Riomtini, and slightly north of . Libreville, and also the greater part of the ifavigablp Übaughi-River. • -■ ■ Th'i'g portion -of French Congo is •-- rich in rubber and ivory. There .are also valuable forests further north._ Germany receives a triangular piece in the Shari adjoining the eastern boundary of the Cameroons, extending to the tenth parallel\ France asks a portion of German territory north of the Cameroons. THE GERMAN PROPOSALS. (Received Last Night, 9.25 o'clock.)- ' PARIS, September 13. Tt is semi-officially stated that M. Deeelvess' draft reply is most explicit in all questions of principle raised in the German proposals, specially tho necessity for maintaining economic equality among the Powers and assuring France's jolitical liberty in "Morocco. M. Deselvess will, to-morrow, confer with M. Falliers. ? A reply will be forwarded to Berlin at the end of the week. >' ' MOORS SELL THEIR LAND. (Received Lasfc 1 Night, 10.20 o'clock.) LONDON, September 13. '•'A wireless message to Tangier states sfeitot a Mannesman party..has arrived at Agadir with an .escort of-two bantired Moors from the Sus region, moGt of whom have sold their land. A BIG DEMAND. (Received Last Night, 10.20 o'clock.) PARIS, September 13. It is reported that Germany has claimed among other things thirty per cent of all the Morocco public works allotted do French subjects.