FRANCO=GERMAN RELATIONS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1324, 30 December 1911, Page 5

FRANCO=GERMAN RELATIONS.

MOROCCAN BARGAINS. INTERESTING DISCLOSURES IN SENATE. BRITISH OBJECTIONS. By Tcleeraph—Press Association—Oonrrieht (Rec. December 30, 0.20 a.m.) Paris, December 29. The Senate Committee's investigations into tho Moroccan agreement havo revealed that the Franco-German agreement of 1009 undertook that tho two Powers should be jointly associated in industrial and commercial enterprises in Morocco. Great Britain objected to tho unfairness of the proportionate participation which Germany and France proposed to allot to the various I'owers in 1911. This rendered an arrangement impracticable and a new convention imperative. At tho wish of the Prime Minister, M. Chilians, an explanatory letter, accompanying the 1909 agreement, was not read in the Senate. M. Caillaux and M. Do Selves, Minister for Foreign Affairs, stated that the letter was withheld because Germany objected to its publication. It is surmised that Germany is concerned as to its pbssiblo effect on a section of German opinion. Sir Edward Grey, British Foreign Minister, was informed of all the circumstances connected with the conclusion of tho 1909 agreement. He declared that the agreement was not open to objection. A dispatch from M. Jules Cambon, French Ambassador in Berlin, was read to the Committee, showing that Herr von Kiderlen-TVaechtor, German Foreign Minister, complained of France's opposition to the Bagdad railway contrary to the spirit of the Morocco agreement of 1909. M. Pichon, ex-Foreign Minister, has now requested the Committee expressly lo report that the agreement did not refer to Eastern affairs, and that no promise or allusion was ever made in that respecl. Another dispatch showed that Herr von Kiderleu-Waechter, on Juno 21, intimated that a-5 Germany had not been allowed to occupy Mogador, compensation must be sought outside Morocco. *■ I'll i,w