MOROCCO

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10513, 30 December 1911, Page 5

MOROCCO

! CABLE NEWS

(United Prest JnucHttion — By ...' tectrie Tdcgra/J'—Copyright.

THE 1909 AGREEMENT

AKi) LATER. DEVELOPMENTS. Received This Morning, 12.20 o'clock PARIS, December 29. The Senate Cfcmimitfbee's investigatdoais into the Moroooani agreemenife revealed that the Franco-German agreement! of 1909 'undertook 'thaV they should be jointly associated in . indiiatriaft amd commercial enterprises.' Britain objected to tie unfairMess of _ the proportionate participattfion which Germany and France proposed' to allfot the various Powers in( 1911. This rendered the arrangement imlptraotAcalble, and a new convention! was imperative. At, the wish of M. OailLaux, am esrolahatoiry letter accompanying tibe 1909 agreement was not read in the Senate. M.M.'e Oasilaux and .Desselves . , stated- that the letter, waa WitMield ! becauise Germany objected to lite pubKcatioo. It is annmsed that many was concerned' at its possible ■■.■"• effect on a section of Germajii opinion. ' Sir Edward Grey had been informed ; of all the circumstances connected , with the conclusion of the 1909 agree-., > raent, and declared that the agreement was not open to objection. M. Jt'les Oambon's despatch/ was read to the Committee, showing 'tjhat ■', '■'; Herr KiderKn AVaecMer complained '..; ■tijiat France's opposition tcrthe Bag- v dad Railway was contrary to the spin*. of tfie Moroccan agreement of 3909. now requested the com--mittee to expressly report that the agreement di-Lhot rgfer* to JEasfcera.':,'..-' affairs, and no promise or allusion was ' t ever made in that reipect. v , Another despatch showed .-tSiat Herr * Kiderlin Waechter on June 21st intimated that, as Germany was not aV lowed to occupy Magador, compensation must be sought outside Moroc<*>;