MOROCCAN AGREEMENT.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1257, 12 October 1911, Page 5

MOROCCAN AGREEMENT.

THE FIRST PART INITIALLED. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyrieht Berlin, October 10. Tho first part of tho Moroccan Agreement has been agreed to and initialled by tho French and German representatives. GERMANY'S PRICE. Berlin, October 11. The German Foreign Minister, Hen' von Kiderlen-Waechter, and tho French Ambassador, M. Jules Cambon, have commenced tho exchange of views as to tho compensation to be awarded Germany for tho withdra.val of her pretensions in Morocco. TEUTOPHOBIA. Writing from a Dutch seaside resort where he was spending his holiday, Herr Theodore Wolff, the editor of the (Liberal) "Berliner Tageblatt," trie.d recently to explain the anti-German prejudice _ that is so widely felt among otherwise liberal-minded poople. Ho savs:— 'Anyone residing in a foreign country which has no interest in tho Morocco affair is in a position to notice that abroad, too, its developments are viewed with anxiety, and that everyone wishes to see its settlement. If on this occasion, too, tho general dissatisfaction is directed more against us than tho French, the fault lies iess than ever with tho subject of tho controversy, sinco nobody denies that Franco has only too flagrantly broken the Treaty of Algeciras. Just as on ovory other similar occasion the progressive nations in the case also aro giving vent to tho antipathy that they entertain towards a Stato which is trying to bar the road to democratic ideas and maintains its bureaucratic polico and junker character in the midst of a modernised Europe. Flatterers and parasites of the present regime aro deceiving tho German burgher into the belief that tho other nations aro only envying Germany her power, and that their hostility is only so much jealousy. One may well ask why, then, does not the same aversion affect the power-seek-ing and unscrupulous England? No; tho nations of Europe arc in accord on such occasions in their hostility towards Germany, not merely because her power appears to them so terrifying. They are in accord because tho Prusso-German regime, with its tutelaj?o and its encouragement of men on the make, is oppos«l to all their views and feelings."