FRANCE IN MOROCCO.
THE SULTAN IN TROUBLE. THREAT TO ; SEIZE' CUSTOMS. By Telegraph.—Press .Association.—Copyright ;, (Received February 20, 6 p.m.) .- Paris, February 19. France has threatened to seize the Customs unless the Sultan of Morocco (Mulai Hafid) yearly ratifies the agreement between'Elmskri (his 'financial /a'gentX'f &ti&; ! M;. :i' Pichon (French Minister for Foreign Affairs). ■ - .The Temp's asserts that one of the Messrs. Mannesmann, a German firm, has gone to Fez to urge Mulai Hafid to resist the French claims, thus infringing the German Government's declarations. >~', Some comment was caused a few months ago by the fact of the German Consul at Fez, in Morocco, having secured from Mulai Hafid important mining concessions for. the German firm of Messrs. Mannesmann. The concessions were obtained after a Franco German agreement had been signed establishing equality, of treatment to the twe nations in'respect of such concessions.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 14300, 21 February 1910, Page 5
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