MOROCCO AND FRANCE.

Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 22, 27 January 1908, Page 7

MOROCCO AND FRANCE.

A DEBATE IN THE CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES. DRAMATIC INTERVENTION OF M. DELCASSE. By Telecrs.ih. ~Press Association.- Copyright. PARIS, 25th January. A debate on the Moroccan situation took place in the Chamber of Deputies yesterday. M. Jaures, the Socialist and antimilitarist Deputy, interpellated tho Government regarding its policy in dealing with tho position that had arisen. The great feature of tho debate was the dramatic intervention of M. Delcasse, ex-Foreign Minister, in justification of his policy. He made a strong proteLt agaiiiFt the hesitations and timidities prompting M. Jaures and his followers to demand tho abandonment of tho European mandate to France to act in Morocco. In Juno, 1905, M. Delcasse resigned his position as Foreign Minister becauss of disagreement with tho Premier (M. Rouvier) and other of his colleagues iccarding his foreign policy methods. Earlier in the year the Kaiser had visaed Tangier, tho occasion being made ono of a great political demonstration, which for the time had tho effect of placing and keeping Franco in nn invidious position, and which was looked upon as a victory for Gorman diplomacy. However, Franco's face waa saved by the Algeciras Conference, where Germany's set back was decided. Smco then tho French authorities have been subjected to much criticism regarding their conduct of operations in Morocco, and in some quarters a much more- vigorous policy is preached. However, tho position is a ticklish ono, and it is evident that Franqo has no wish to do anything that could be construed into a pretext for intervention by any other Power—say Germany. It is significant that in March last, tho Berlin Post, a cemi-official organ, stated that the German Government desired to have kept conspicuously in mind that French procedure in Morocco had definite limits, and that thsro existed iiich a thing as the Algeciras Convention. "France," it «ent ori to 'say, "has certainly a free hand in this afTair, but within "the limits of existing international agreements. Nobody would havo thought of emphasising this had not France proceeded with such extraordinary violence."

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