BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS.

Evening Post, Volume LXX, Issue 13, 15 July 1905, Page 9

BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS.

SPECTATOR SUMMARY. (For week ending 27th May, 1905.) THE EMPEROR AND THE LEAGUE. The German Emperor has warned theNavy League- at Berlin, that their zeal is becoming inconvenient. In a telegram from the Mediterranean he informed Prince Salm,| flic Chairman of the League, that Chauvinistic proposals do mischief, and are besides'interferences with his own "prerogative as War Lord." The Prince, after consideration, resolved to remain at his post ; but t\?o Generals who were conspicuous for the daring 0/ their proposals at once resigned, and ib is understood that the ton© of the League will henceforth be moderated. Count yon Bulow, it is said, is annoyed by the telegram, which is, of course, an order given over hia head ; but it is said that the Emperor had two serious metives for his intervention. He perceives that exaggerated proposals alarm the maritime Powers into enlarging their building programmes, and finds that the party of the Centre is resolutely opposed to the excessive expenditure involved in overfast production of battleships. It must bo remembered that the Centre represents South Germany as well as Roman Catholic opinion, and thaty the South has little hope of sectional advantage from the Weltpolitdk. MOROCCO. Count yon Tattenbach, the German Envoy to Morocco, has accorded an interview to the special correspondent of the Echo de Paris, and lias explained his ideas with some' clearness. He contends that the Conference about Morocco for which the German Emperor wished has already been secured. The Envoys of the great maritime Powers are. about to • meet at Fez, and might just as well have met at Tangier. The basis of negotiation, he continues, ■will bo the Convention of Madrid of, 1880, and not, therefore, the Anglo-French "Agreement." We shall see, when Mr. Lowther, the British Envoy, reaches Fez ; but intermediately the French correspondent is evidently a little downcast. He says the Moroccan Divan has consented to the French terms provided Germany approves them, and is trying to play off the Powers against one another. France, it is clear, according to this statement, is to humiliate herself by abandoning her special position, and allowing everything in Morocco to drift. We suspect that tho French Government, without abandoning anything, will "go slow," awaiting events ; that the Sultan, who knows that France is on his frontier, wiE not agree with his Divan ; that no special privilege will be granted to Germnny; and that everything at Fez, as elsewhere, will await the result of the Russo-Japanese War. Unless the question is forced on by the German Emperor, there is no particular reason why Morocco, which has waited centuries for reasonably just government, should not await another year or two. .