MOROCCO.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1279, 7 November 1911, Page 5

MOROCCO.

TERMS OF THE AGREEMENT. THE CONGO CESSIONS. Gy Telegraph—Press Association—Oopyri-ght Paris, November 5. Tho black population in the area of between 100,000 and 15(1,000 acres in the Congo ceded by France to Germany in exchange for a freo hand in Morocco totals 1,200,000. acquires fourteen thousand squaro kilometres (SG29 square miles), with free transit on tho Mackebi River through German territory to tho Benuo ltiver, a tributary of tho Niger; als-j enclaves on the lienue and Maekobi Rivers, and towards tho Logone River. .1 his will enable her to establish revictualling posts. Germany, equally with France, la granted for transit on the seaboard a strip ono thousand metres <10513 yards) wide, north of Libreville, in the French Congo, at the mouth of tho Gabuu River. TRADE RIGHTS IN MOROCCO. EQUALITY TO ALL NATIONS. • Berlin, November 5. Germany will not object to the appointment of French representatives on the Maghzen (Moorish Council of Ministers), as intermediaries between the other Powers. > France pledges equality to all nations with regard to trade and mining concessions. She will not placc an export duty on iron ore. Both nations aro to have unrestricted trade transit and railway construction rights in tho Congo. Germany's communique respecting the settlement contains a denial that Britain: disturbed the negotiations. FRENCH PRESS SATISFIED. A GERMAN SERVICE. Paris, November 5. The press generally is satisfied with the agreement. Several papers remark that Germany has rendered an immense servico in awakening French patriotism. Tho "Libro Parole" states that tho agreement is monstrous, and that 11. Caillaux, the Premier, has assumed a heavy responsibility. The "Eclair" declares that Germanypossesses the trump card, which will make •her the first Tower in Africa. GERMAN COMMENT. A LOSS OF PRESTIGE. Berlin, November 5. Tho Government organs deplore tho Colonial Office's attempt to impede tho. Chancellor's policy, a courso incompatible with the orderly conduct of. Imperial affairs. Other papers anticipate tho disclosure of Ministerial differences regarding tho Reichstag elections. They contend that the agreement is a good bargain on paper, while Germany's prestige hn9 been damaged. Tho "Morgen Post" (Liberal) says there is a feeling of shanio and deep indignation at the result of tho four months' negotiations- between Franco and Germany. Tho Socialist journal "Vorwaorts" states that the policy of Herr Von Ividor-len-Wachter (Minister for Foreign Affairs) and Herr von Bethmann-Hollweg (Imperial Chancellor) is a visitation from Heaven, liko plaguo or famino. MINISTERIAL CHANGES. DR. SOLF AT TOE COLONIAL i OFFICE. Berlin, November 5. Professor Dunckolman, a distinguished Congo authority, attached to tho department of Herr von Lindquist (Minister for the Colonies, who has resigned), also retires. Dr. Solf, formerly Governor of Samoa, will provisionally succeed Herr von Lindquist.