PEACE OP EUROPE.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXII, Issue 65, 14 September 1911, Page 7

PEACE OP EUROPE.

I GERMANY AND DENMARK. ' ENCROACHMENTS IN TERRITORIAL WATERS. NAVAL MANOEUVRES. Bj T«letfftph."~Prei!i ASsoeiatton.— CopjTleht (Received September 14, 9 a.m.) COPENHAGEN, 13lh Sept. Forty German warships are -manoeuvring in the Great Belt, and injuring the fishing fleet. There is irritation in Denmark at, t.h& German encroachments in .territorial waters. REGAROIN6 MOROCCO. I MORE HOPEFtJL FEELING* {Received September 14, 9 a.m.) LONDON, 13th September. ThcrG is a more hopeful feeling in fitlditciAl circles in London, Berlin, and Paris respecting the Moroccan qites* lion* TERRITORIAL COMPENSATION. WHAT FRANCE IS SAID TO HAVE PROPOSED. A .QUID PRO .QUO. LONDON, 13th September. Renter's News Agency, on the strength of information received from an authoritative- Source, states that, al* though the question of territorial com* pensatioft is momentarily in the _ background ill the Moroccan negotiations owing to Germany's new claims, France proposes to cede territory in West Africa, with an area equal to two- thirds of France itself. This will enable Germany to obtain direct access to the Congo River, thus facilitating eventual railway and road communication be* tween the German Cameroofls and German East Africa. France will also give Germany access to the sea in a bay south of the Spanish territory of Eio Muili, and sligntly north of Libreville. The greater part of the iiavigablo reaches of the tlbanghi Rivef will also go to Germany. This portion of the French Congo is rich in, rubber, ivory, and valuable forgets. Further north Germany will receive a triangular piece- in the Shari district, adjoining the eastern boundary of the German Cameroons, and extending to tire tenth parallel of north latitude. France asks for a portion of the Ger* man territory In the North Cameroons. SEMI-OFFICIAL STATEMENT. DRAFT REPLY. MOST EXPLICIT ON ALL QUESTIONS. PARIS, 13th September. It is semi-officially stated that thd draft reply to Germany drawn up by M. dft Selves, French Foreign Minister, is tnost explicit on all questions of prill* I ciple raised in the German proposals, especially on the necessity of maintaining economic equality among the Powers, and assuring France's political liberty in Morocco. M. de Selves will to-morrow confer with thd President, M. Fallieres, and the reply will be forwarded to Berlin at the end of the week. A GERMAN CLAIM. 1 MM MORROCCAN PUBLIC WORKS. PAR4S, 13th September. It is reported that Germany has claimed among oth&r things a thirty per cent, share in all Moroccan public works allotted to French subjects. mannesmann concessions, a partyTt agadir. LONDON, 13lh September. A wireless message to Tangier state i that Herr Mannesmann, the German mining concessionaire, and patty have arrived at Agadir with tn escort of two hundred Moors from the Sus region, most of whom have sold their lands to the Germans. WAR RATES. A DROP FOLLOWED BY A RISE LONDON, 13th Septemb&r. After dropping to five per cent, thft rate for insurance against a FrancoGerman war during the next two months has: agaih risen to twelve gui&eas per cent. This is mainly to cover the depredation of shares in tn&nj of thecargoes covered. AIRSHIPS IN WARTIME. WHAT EXPERTS BELIEVE. By Telegraph —Press AgsociaMon.—-Copyrlsht. (Received September 14, 9 a.m.) BERLIN, 13th September. The army manoeuvres were carried Oivt in cloudless and windless weather. This enabled aviators to obtain complete details of the dispositions. Expertis believe it will be hopeless henceforth to hide movements from the enemy during clear weather. [An interesting and highly successful experiment in sending wireless mesoages from an aeroplane was made in France on 29th July last. The military airmen, Lieutenant Menard and Captain Brenot of the Engineers, in a biplane specially fitted for the purpose, sent a mef«sa.ge from the- point where they were flying sonie where above Rambouillet, about 31 miles from Paris, to the receiving station at the Eiffel Tower, from which it was safely delivered at its destination, the Ministry of War. The wireless telegraphy apparatus in the biplane weighed just over 461b] A VESSEL WRECKED. PASSENGERS SAVED. By Telesrnr>h.— Press A«eociati«n.-~ C»t>yrll*bt>. VANCOtJVEr,. 13th September. The wooden steamer Kamona, while WTunfrhb&nnd from Skagway to Seattle, ran ashore, and has become a total lo?s a& the Spanish Islands on the Alaskan coast. A wireless mtsj-age brought a.id, and the passengers were rescued. LThe ■Ramona was the property of the Pacific Coast Company. BxxWb in 1892, fh» wos a vessel of 1061 tons gross.] Don't forget 10 per cent, discount on ptuxhaws 5s ar.tl over until end of September. Thi« concession ie not on old stock. We aj'c now opening haa\y Tfome and Continental shipment*. fcleo. ■ Jffiwjd! Ltd,, Qutfitkra^AtLv.W