A DARING THREAT.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 107, 29 January 1908, Page 7

A DARING THREAT.

FRANCO=BRITISH ALLIANCE CAUSES 1 1 TROUBLE. W

THE KAISER'S INFLUENCE,' ; . ■ *■: Hi. i ■*!,■■>"! : .%■':■ dt isi.sßttArn—mesa r/ibeocution—coptsioiit,' ' .■ Berlin, January 27. Widespread interest* is taken in "Germany over M. Dolcasse's sjpeech'm of Doputios oil Morocco. Semi-official comments arc reserved. . ■■■■ / - It 18 reported m Hans that n\ Juno, 1905, the Kaiser informed Signor Tittonl, Italian Minister for .-thai; troops would enter Lorraino .if .M< .Dolcquso, —the Foreign Minister in tho French Cabi-: net—succeeded m negotiating an -dffensivte' and defensive alliance. .with JBrltam. Signor. Tittoni informed • M.Barrere, 1 tfie"> French Ambassador in, Rome,, .who; 1 cabled:to M. Rrtttvier, the French Premier. . . M.i Rouvier thereupon dommnled'M.\\Delcasse's immedjate v.-retirement)'r,> reproaching him for not communicating: the -negotiations to his' colleagues. - : ■ ■■ ■ <

' REPUBLIC'S POLICY DEFINED

"NO ISOLATION " |

"MINISTERS FALL, BUT FRANCE ' remAM' ?v r '" Vl

(Rec. jatti'.'SSj

i v Farls, January 28. • i,M. Pichon, Mihistor of Forbij# Affairs,* Was warfhly applauded in, tt isjlocoh-in wfuoh. he '■ defined the joint- policy of Fnincc and Spain as .the of Ijinrope to restore ' order ' in -" tlio , -«Saߣ^uistricta',\ , -ana''-w'' establish:a police. ..'it i. i j n« France, said the Minister, will - maintain a prudent- neutrlilittf regarding Moroccan internal affairs. There will he no protect tofate,:fllid France will fiot'iceeptr-a Morocco i more iiitovjiatiOftalisod thafi binder the Alyeciras Treaty, 1 1 ,i \ 'V. . Her-Moroccan policy^saitl. MA Pichon, IS part ot Franco's geheral foroigfl policy, i which belongs to neither the- workman nor tho Govcrlimont, hut which is the work of the Republic. France haß regained the posi-, tion to which she is-entitled in-the Concort

of Europe. - r,,.: ' Ho eulogised pe'acefuLalliancc. and entont-os. To link such li policy with -the fato of a Minister would only wealcen their scope. Ministers fell, but FMnce..reraained«-.,; ~ s . France had cleared ;up, ,tho..'misiitider"Aanding between Britain and Russia. France's policy ought not, and does not, appeari to he directed against, or to be-intended to isolate anyone. v k v' ' « . " Agreements with Britain ' aiSd .;Spaini". the Minister added, ".entitled- U3 to act in Morocco,, yet we needed authority to act. Then a complication • Irqse far as tho danger of war? I do not knotf; but we —everybody here—consented' to,, a conference; and attended with a 'limited programme. We should have accepted no other, and that cdnftfiWci : ;gdW '6ur'. l a new basis." '

Gradually the, inner history - surrounding the retirement of >t.' Delciisse 'is i coming >to light'.' Nearly three years up;o, when Germany overshadowed and hroW-l»at, KrJinsS, and y)ven the latter's Moroccan buttressed'by ~tho Algeeir&s Convention—seemed doo'iied Jto practical extinction, M. Delcasse, "as. Foreign Slinister and the Rilidiuß Spirit iii Moroccan affairs, was the vietim -andrth? ;scai*goat;. 'Itr J;ime, ■ 1505,'-M. -Delcasse tendered his .resignation. It-was then:stated that'.'owih'g'.'to-the' criticisms of his . opponents—especially!' t.he -Socialists-rU-nd to "tile .Morooeo imp'assp." .his colleagues of the Eouvier Cabinet' considered 11. Delcasse's position untenable. The Premier (M. Itouvier) himself took - the • portfolio, of Foreign Affairs, and "ThoTinies commented that M. Kouvier would 1)0 111 a better position to (leal with Morocco,,, "simply : because : -hi»-is' not 51. DelcaKse." ■ At, the Bame time, the 'great rival diplomatist in Germany, Count von flulow, was raised to tlltf'jdignity.of a.JPrinco. Though 'so strong a Foreign ..At, Delcasse was yet deefried l)y' impartial critics a lover of peace. -He was the chief architect of the Anglo-French entente cordialo, and the initiator of the series of arbitration, treaties which now bind so many civilised