GERMANY, FRANCE AND BRITAIN.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 184, 21 July 1911, Page 1

GERMANY, FRANCE AND BRITAIN.

german bluff. BRITISH WARSHIPS MAY ; HASTEN DEVELOPMENTS.

[PKNSS ASSOCIATION. —COPYRIGHT]. I London, July 20. ■ “ The Times” regards the Ger-i man demands as audacious bluff, < possibly not without electioneering aspects, but also believes that Germany has not yet shown her hand. The paper adds ‘' Possibly the sending of one or two British ships to Agadir might hasten develop-, meats.

CABINET CONSIDERS THE POSITION. Owing to the Veto crisis, and perhaps more especially to the sudden delicate situation between France and Germany regarding Morocco. Mr. Asquith’s intended visit to Edinburgh next Monday has been: postponed. The Cabinet to morrow will consider the Veto question and the: German demands. These amount, to a complete cession by France of the coast and the interior of French Congo as far as thebangariver; also France’s contingent reversion to the Congo State under the suggested arrangement, which would add another -200.000 to the., existing 200.000 square miles in the German Cameroons. while France would retain the hinterland of French Congo. The communication thence to the Atlantic would; be exclusively through German or Belgian territory. GERMANY’S IMPOSSIBLE DEMANDS.

The Paris correspondent of “ The, Times” states that although it G not’ alleged on the German s ue that France has beeen guilty of any contravent ion of the Algeciras agreement of February. 1909, Germany was demanding impossible compensations. which German statesmen were aware were not. conceivable. The French Govern-, ment could for the moment enter tain the so-called compensations for withdrawing the warship from Agadir without the relinquishing of any valuable economic rights secured by Germany in Morocco in 1900. Nor is there a word of German guarantees for the better ful-, filment of the promise of 1909 not to impede France’s acknowledged political interest in Morocco. The opinion is spreading that Germany

desires France, as a last resort, to whittle settlement to Mulai Hafid’s reding Agadir to enclave Germany. This would satisfy pan-German ambitions, and by directly compromising British interests greatly strain the Anglo-French entente. ■' Le Temps ” declares that if the negotiations lead to a deadlock, France’s only course will be an appeal to the signatories to the Algeciras agreement GERMANY SENDS ANOTHER WARSHIP. (Received 21. 9.5 a.m.) Berlin. July 20. The sending of another warship into Moroccan waters is semiofficially foreshadowed.

SPAIN APOLOGISES TO FRANCE. (Received 21. 8.5 a.m.) Paris. July 20. Spain has fully apologised for the treatment shown to M. Boisset.