MOROCCAN INCIDENT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13868, 30 September 1908, Page 7

MOROCCAN INCIDENT.

THE FRENCH VERSION. GERMAN MISCHIEF-MAKERS. By telegraph.— Association.—Copyright. (Received September 29, 11 p.m.) Paris, September 29. In reference to the Moroccan incident, Parisian newspapers allege that the captured deserters from the Foreign Legion now accuse the Germans of egging them on to desert. They declare that an agency for desertion and fomenting mischief has been in existence for some time in Casablanca. _ ' General d'Amade (commanding the French troops in Morocco) telegraphs that the German Consul at Casablanca gave his (the Consul's) secretary a written order to help the embarkation of six of the deserters.. General d'Amade possesses the original order One of the deserters was a Swiss, another an Austrian, and a third a Pole. General d'Amade adds: " Far from the French sailors having, as some statements allege, in the first instance roughly handled the representative of the Consulate, they were themselves first struck bjr the Consulate native employees, *and subsequently by the secretary himself." ' The Temps states that 30 deserters from one company at Casablanca previously' obtained civilian* clothing at the house of a German subject, then following the coast to Rabat, the Consul helping them to embark. (Received Soptember 29, 11.26 p.m.) London, September 29. The Times is confident that responsible opinion in France and Germany will be able upon cool reflection to regard the Casablanca incident with equanimity, especially m view of the general entente on Moroccan affairs. THE FRANCO-SPANISH NOTE. (Received Soptember 29, 11.26 p.m.) London, September 29. The Italian and Austro-Hungarian replies to the Franco-Spanish Note concur, on all substantial points, and emphasise the necessity for common accord on the Moroccan question.