MOROCCAN WAR CLOUD.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3295, 14 August 1911, Page 5

MOROCCAN WAR CLOUD.

POSITION OF EUROPEAN MARKETS,

RENEWAL OF CRISIS FEARED.

□ READ IN BUSINESS CIRCLES.

The fear that a revival of the Moroccan crisis is,.impending is ma.nifest«<!j~l by all the European rhafketis, says 'artjp special cable fiicssage .reecivecL in Sy<P nev last week. " '’ v In London last Wcdesday the market opened weak, in consequence of the published reports that the date of the manoeuvres of the destroyer flotilla had l>ee.n advanced. There is a "mera-l dread in business circles that the negotiations now in progress might be -broken off owing to the demands for compensation which have been made by Germany, but with which. France steadily refuses to comply.

CERMAN SOLDIER’S OUTRAGE.

REPORTED IN FRENCH TERRITORY. WAS IT AN ACT OF WAR? One of the Paris papers, “Le Journal,” reports a sensational incident which is said to have occurred on the Franco-German frontier. The story nublished bv the “’Journal” comes from Nancy, and is to the effect that six German soldiers crossed the frontier from. Lorraine, and after cutting the tele-graph wires broke down several poles. Two of the men were arrested and taken to Longey prison.

CERMAN MINISTERS’ MISTAKE. MAKES KAISER FURIOUS. RECKONED WITHOUT HIS BRITISH HOST. The Berlin correspondent of the Paris daiiv “Le Matin” learns on high authority that the Kaiser was furious upon becoming fully cognisant of the Moroccan situation created bv his Foreign. Minister, Herr von Kiderlin-Waec-hter, during his late cruise. Hie belief is advanced that the German Foreign Minister counted on Britain remaining indifferent to developments in Morocco. When, however, the British Government started taking a hand in the game, and showed thot, far from being indifferent to Moroccan developments, it was very much interested in them, something like a panic ensned in Germany. In his dilemma Herr van Kiderlin-Wa-eehter sought advice from the leading bankers, who, according to the “Matin’s” correspondent, promptly told him that lie must abandon most of the demands that had been made.