ON THE CONTINENT.

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 1675, 20 December 1911, Page 2

ON THE CONTINENT.

THE FRANCO-GERMAN AGREEMENT. BY ELEOTBIO TELEGBAPH —COPYBIGHT. [.PER PBESS ASSOCIATION.] Paris, December 19. In ihe Chamber of Deputies, in the course of the Moroccan debate, M. Caillaux declared the possession otAlgeria and Tunis made the occupation of Morocco necessary. Germany demanded compensation. It was natural that the cession of territory was a painful subject. He did not wish to depreciate the value of the ceded territories. France had secured more satisfactory conditions than England possessed in Egypt. Negotiations with Spain were delicate, but presented no insurmountable difficulties. Berlin, December 19. Newspapers publish further AVilhelmshaven stories of spies. They add that the reason the fleet remained at sea was not to guard against* a sudden onslaught, but that it dared not enter the harbour, fearing it would be imprisoned there. (Received Dec. 20, 10.25 a.m.) Berlin, December 19. Several policemen and others on the active list of the navy were arrested at AVilhelmshaven on charges of espionage.