GERMAN CLAIMS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1361, 12 February 1912, Page 7

GERMAN CLAIMS.

» A FRENCH VIEW. '■': r.'i-;. nph—Fre«» Anoctatloa—OoßTrieM Paris, February 9. " i ' speech in Hid French Senate, M. V\i'bc (an ex-Minister for Foreign Afifiivsi aid that tho Franco-German agrce-r-.i- !•■ jf 1909 had worked well. Franco r ■:.(; Dade no sacrifice. Germany's •Ay.-.'.' had grown continually, but no rir:-.[i was offered for giving Germany •I'-'.dU-rial compensation, lie would not '•■■'•;•'. ' r the treaty. ' Doubtless Congo af- ;;';:■.-■• ••■ ire discussed by M. De Selves and fl'Mr .iderlen Waechter in their inter- •■'•■■• i : Ivissengen. From May onwards ■ .•« as the question of the cession of ■•• v, ilo of the French Congo. !'n" tatement' caused a sensation in ■i v -te. ;:■• i, M. Pichon continued, made a ■■'.'. istako in lending herself to nego- >:'.•:.!..■■ after tho Agadir incident. THE AGADIR INCIDENT. Paris, February 11. M. Ribot, in the Senate, declared that when the German gunboat Panther was sent to Agadir M. Cambon ought not to have been allowed to return to Berlin where ho was French Ambassador. France ought to have insisted that tho subsequent negotiations should be conducted in Paris. Germany was mistaken if she imagined she could make France forgot the past.