MOROCCAN INCIDENT.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 315, 30 September 1908, Page 7

MOROCCAN INCIDENT.

FRENCH VERSIONS. CERMANS WERE THE ACCRESSORSJ ASSISTING DESERTERS, (ni telegram—ritEss association - —cornttanT.) Paris, September 28. Further details aro to hand concerning tho international incident at Casablanca, whero French gendarmes arrested fivo deserters from tho Foreign Legion, taking them from the control and protection of tho Secretary to the Gorman Consulate. Paris papers allego that tho captured deserters now accuse the Germans of "eggiug" them on to desert. They declare that an agoncy for desertion and the fomenting of mischief has been in existence for soino time in Casablanca. . CENERAL d'AMADE'S REPORT. THREE NON-GERMAN DESERTERS. (Rec. September 29, 10.56 p.m.) ; Paris, September 29. General d!Amade, Commander-in-Chief of tho French [ troops in Morocco, telegraphs that the German Consul at Casablanca gavo the Secretary to tho Consulate a written order to help: tho embarkation of six men. General d'Amade possesses tho original order. The sis men were desorters from the Foreign Legion. One was a Swiss, another was an Austrian, a third was a Polo. General d'Amado adds: —"Far from the French sailors having, as some statements allege, in the first, instance roughly handled tho representative of the German Consulate, thoy were themselves first struck by tho Consulate's native employees, and subsequently by the Secretary himself. i A PRIOR EVENT. GERMAN AID FOR RUNAWAYS. (Rec. September 29, 11.26 p.m.) Paris, September 29. " Lo Tomps " states that on oils occasion, to ; tho " incident," thirty deserters from one i company at Casablanca obtained civilian clothing at tho house of a German subject. They then followed tho coast to Rabat, where the German Consul helped them to embark. i AN ENGLISH VIEW. COOL REFLECTION WILL' PREVAIL. (Roc. September 29, 10.56 p.m.) London, September 29. " Tho Times " is confident that responsible opinion in Franco and Germany will be able, upon cool reflection, to regard tho Casablanca incident with equanimity, especially in- view of tho general entente in Moroccan affairs.

THE NOTE. ITALY AND AUSTRIA CONCUR. (Rec. Soptemher 29, 11.26 p.m.) London, September 29. The Italian aud the Austro-Hungariau replies to tho Franco-Spanish Note, sotting out tho terms on which Mulai Hafid shall be recognised as Sultan, concur with tho Note on all substantial points. They emphasise tho necessity of common accord on tho Morocco question.