L'ENTENTE CORDIALE.

Evening Star, Issue 12167, 11 April 1904, Page 6

L'ENTENTE CORDIALE.

Pm* Association—By Telegraph—Copyright ALL OLD QUESTIONS SETTLED. A TRIUMPH FOR PEACE. SUMMARY OF THE AGREEMENT. ■ LONDON, April 10. Tbe British and ■ French Press unanimously applaud the Anglo-French Agreement. The public are delighted, and attribute much of the success to King Edward and President Loubet, seconded by MM. Delcasse (Minister of Foreign Afiairs) and Gambon (French Ambassador in England) and Lord Lansdowne (Secretarv of Foreign Affairs). France renounces her exclusive rights to the French shore in Newfoundland, but retains the right to fish on the coast, receiving an additional right to catch lobsters. The restrictions as to supplying British bait t° French fishermen are withdrawn. The facilities for drying and cleaning fish ashore continue, but Newfoundland’s jurisdiction is acknowledged. French shipowners and others affected will be compensated. The Senegal-Gambia (West Coast of Africa) frontier is modified, giving France access to the navigable portion of the Gambia River at Yarbatcnda-. Britain cedes to France the islands off the Sierra Leone coast commanding the French port of Konakry- The frontier of Northern Nigeria is modified, giving France straight and easy access to Lake Tchad. The political status of Egypt remains unaltered. France does not ask for a limitation of the British occupation, nor for the prevention of the Egyptian Government disposing of the fiscal surpluses, already amounting to £5,600,000. She otherwise abandons her old policy of obstruction. Britain reiterates the neutralisation of the Suez Canal. Britain recognises France’s predominant position in Morocco. France agrees not to fortify the coast opposite Gibraltar. Both Powers agree to an open door for trade in Egypt and Morocco for thirty years at least. Siam’s integrity is guaranteed, British influence being recognised as predominant west of the Miniak River, and France’s as paramount east of the river.

England recognises France’s Tariff in Madagascar. The appointment of a commission to settle the land disputes in the New Hebrides is agreed to. A HISTORIC LANDMARK. SPAIN INDIGNANT. RUSSIA DISAPPOINTED. LONDON, April 10. (Received April 11, at 8.10 ajn.) ‘The Times’ says that the Anglo-French Agreement is a landmark in Hie policy of both nations, and adds that “it is a perfectly satisfactory settlement.” Bitter comments are published in the Spanish newspapers, which anticipate an Agreement entailing Spain’s evacuation of Morocco. The German Press emphasise Russia’s disappointment over the Anglo-French rapprochement, though some fear a temporary Anglo-Russo-French entente.