FRANCE & GERMANY
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(United Press Association—By Mectrie Telegraph—Copyright.)
DEBATE (N THE CHAMBER.
PRIME MINISTER'S SPEECH.
(Received Lust Night, 10.40 o'clock)
PARIS, December 15. Gomte De jVsfai opened the Franco-< German debate in a crowded Chamber, with a telling speech, the effect of whiclh was thart previously in Mistory France had lost colonies, 'but was always with weapons in her hands. It was now different. '■' M. Deceives (Prime Minister) amid much interruption, . laughter, and ironical cheers, laid that Germ any resolutely., refused .&>' ~ overtake the ContereiU'e; ctf Algccirai;-' .powers; He stated thai if c-allec/ she would insist on thie re-esta.b)r: ili -"■ nient of the status quo created' in a Algeckas aft-ea- France refused, toj cede any of Morooco. Germany:,! .asked for tlhe whole of Gtetboon and >Oongo between ocean and the Sanga River, France receiving Togoland and a strip of the Gameroons.. The tension was created when France refused. Germany then, suggested that she be given access to the Congo river and afterwards proposed to divide Morocco into two zones, one of wlmh Germany would have, the adv-antage to outline. It wa«> an ultimate agreement-, am 1 .only emerged in October that Spain ! now be asked to pay an- equitable; Iprioe for the- benefits, conferred by it/he Franco-German agreement. Comte De Mruns' interpolation vrne •negatived by 4,'-8 votes"to 98.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10504, 16 December 1911, Page 5
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218FRANCE & GERMANY Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10504, 16 December 1911, Page 5
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