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Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 1658, 28 November 1911, Page 2

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SIR EDWARD/GREY ON THE SITUATION.

THE LOOKED-FOR SPEECH

BY ELECXEIO TELEGRAPH COPYRIGHT. [PEB PRESS ASSOCIATION.] (Received November 28, 11.40 a.mj Cl . _~ London, Nov. 27. bir Edward Grey, Secretary for FoAffairs, speaking in the House oi Commons, in moving a resolution that the foreign policy of the Govrennient be considered, made an oßicial statement, He said the disclosures made by the German Minister oi Foreign Aifairs "were incomplete. The German notification of July 1 implied the re-opening of the Moroccan question. On July. 3 he (Sir Edward) told the German Ambassador that the British Cabinet must discuss the situation, and on the *m> after, the Cabinet had met, he intimat/ed that Britain must consi|der her treaty obligations and her own interests in Morocco, " and that we were, therefore, unable to recognise any arrangement come to -without! us." Then came a period of silence. W lieu certain information caused apprehenskm that Germany contemplated a partition, the German Government told Sir W. E. Goschen, the British Ambassador in Berlin, on the 12th, that it was not intended to arrange anything with France and Spain. . The newspapers then reporijod Germany's demands concerning the French Congo. On July 21, he (Sir Edward) intimated that if negotiations to rectify the Congo were unsuccessful, embarrassment would arise. The German Ambassador in London replied that ho had no information. The Hon. D. Lloyd George made his much-discussed speech after consulting the Premier and himself (Sir Edward). Then the German Ambassador made an exceedingly stiff communication, and Sir- Edward replied that Mr Lloyd George's speech could not have created surprise 'H Germany " unless there was some tendency to think that we might be disregarded." (Cheers.)