MOROCCAN AGREEMENT.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume II, Issue 15, 30 December 1911, Page 5

MOROCCAN AGREEMENT.

Till. SENATE S INVESTIGATIONS. I PRESS ASSOCIATION- - COI’YIt KIHT. ] Pa'll.'. Dec. 29. The Senate ('oinmittee’s investigations into the Moroccan agreement r< link'd the fact that the FraiicoGirman agreement of 19'>9 undertook that tii’-y should be jointly associated in industrial and commercial enterprises. Gnat Britain objected to the unfaiiiu ss of the proportionate participation wlii< h (iei niaiiy- and I rance pre pi -i'l t<; allot to the various Powers. In 191! this rendered the arrangement impracticable and a nt w convention imperative. At M. Caillaux's wish the explanatory letter accompanying the 19<>9 agr<emi nt was not read in the Senate. M. Caillanx and Mr. Dcselves Stated that it was with* Id because (ill-many objected to its publication. Il is surmised that Germany- is concerned in ’ts possible effect on a tietion of tiennan opinion. Sir Edward Gny was informed on ’all circumstanccs connected with the jgom-ht-ion *t the 1909 agreement, and dei-larcd the agreement not 1: p* n to object ion. M. .ftilcs Uamboirs despatch was rr ad by the committee, showing that Htri- kidirlin Waeshur complained <f Er nice’s opposition to the Baghdad railway as contrary to the spirit of the Morocco agreement of 191)9. M. richiin now requested the committee expressly to report that the agreement did not reft r to Eastern aft-iirs .and mi promise or allusion was ever made in that respect. Anc-her despatch showed that Herr Ki:l< rlin Waei-htcr on June 21st intimated that as Germany was ne,t allow. <1 io occupy Mogadcr compensatii.ti must lie sengilt outside of )!.<i j. A RJFFIAN REVERSE. Madrid. Dec. 29. The general in command of the Spanish advance yesti rday drove the lUftiaus a!i nir the Kert livrr. k.lling 3i'o. Gi neral lb- was gravely wi-umbd ami t-a i- Spaniards were killed ami 67 w* 111 d< d. It -s stated tiint si on i-finfiiicrments have been t rdered to the front. SPANISH LOSSES. (Received 30. 9.35 a.in.) Madrid. Dee. 29. Tl *- Spiniih I in the recent cmragcim nt with the Riffs im-bided one colonel, 'ix cfiieeis and sixti cm- men killed and : ighteen offici i.' and (In men wounded. The Riffs again assembling in large num--I,'crs to renew the attack.