MULAI AND GERMANY

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 295, 7 September 1908, Page 7

MULAI AND GERMANY

FRANCO-SPANISH NOTE. PROPOSED TERMS OF RECOGNITION. ALGECIRAS ACT. (BY TELEGItArH —PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT.) (Rec. September G, 4.40 p.m.) Berlin, September 5. Germany has received with satisfaction from the French Charge d'Affaires a verbal Communication of tho Franco-Spanish Note. Tho effect of the Franco-Spanish proposals is that the signatories should recognise Mulai Hafid as Sultan whon he— (1) Officially notifies his accession to tho throno of Morocco; (2) Accepts tho terms of tho Act of Algeciras, with all tho obliga- ' tions of Abdul Aziz; (3) Promises fair and reasonable treatment of Abdul Aziz. THE INTERVENTION TACTICS. INVITING ISOLATION. GERMAN PRESS CRITICISM. Lcndon, September 4. The Paris correspondent of "Tho Times" says that Germany's proposal regarding Morocco (tho speedy recognition of Mulai Hafid as Sultan) was frigidly received in London and St. Petersburg, and unsympathetically in Austria. Berlin, September 4. Tho newspaper " Frankfurter Zeitung " denies the necessity of Germany's intervention. "It will be her own fault," says the paper, "if sho becomes isolated."

The majority of the Berlin papors are not enthusiastic in regard to Germany's action. MOROCCAN IMPRESSION OF VASSEL'S JOURNEY. GERMANY ACCLAIMED. (Rec. September 7, 0.31 a.m.) Morocco, September 5. Tho Moroccan tribes are everywhere acclaiming Dr. Vassol (the German Consul at Tangier, who recently m.ido a carefully-pre-pared visit to Fez), in the belief that Germany has recognised Mulai Haikl as Sultan of Morocco. MULAI HAFID WRITES TO THE KAISER. It is not clear whether the word "signatories" applies to tho signatories of tho Noto, Trance, and Spain, as being tho mandatory Powers under the Algeciras Act, or whether it applies to tho Powers that signed tho Act. Their 1 signatures would, of course, bo, ultimately required. These Powers aro.—Britain, France, Germany, Morocco, Austria, Belgium, United States, Italy, Holland, Portugal, Russia, and Sweden. Last June the mission sent to Europe by Mulai Hafid, whose envoys had then been noaTly two months in Germany, culminated in a remarkable letter from Jlulai Ilafid to "tho German Emperor, the Imperial Chancellor, and the German peoplo." The language of the letter suggests a diplomatic hand. In it Mulai Hafid declared that order had been restored in the administration of Morocco, tho price of food had once more reached a normal level, and that tho wholo of Morocco realised that his action was calculated "ljy tho help of God to promote the welfare of the country." Tho lettor concluded:— "In view of theso our successes we liopo that Germany will support us in restoring normal conditions in Morocco, and that good relations may bo established between our two nations." .