MOROCCAN SETTLEMENT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14819, 24 October 1911, Page 7

MOROCCAN SETTLEMENT.

BRITISH ATTITUDE. NO PRESSURE ON FRANCE. ______ * By Telegraph.— Association.— dopjn.ht \ Paris, October 22. Mr. Herbert Samuel (British Post-master-General), speaking at the unveiling of the bust of King Edward at the British Chamber of Commerce, said that the British Cabinet and England 1 rejoiced at the mutual settlement in Morocco, with free commercial access to all nations. Britain, he said, never aspired to embroil one conntry with another— her ambition was to promote international goodwill. She raised no difficulties over the Moroccan question, nor had she exercised pressure on France.

That there is need for such authoritative declarations as that of the PostmasterGeneral is proved by the recont comments of the Cologne Gazette,, which declares that Britain engineered the Moroccan situation in "revenge for Bosnia." The German organ adds that the refusal of both Franco and Russia, at the time of the annexation by Austria of Bosnia, to allow themselves to be used as England's instruments against the Triple Alliance has left behind an intolerable smart " in the ambitious soul of Sir Edward Grey,' and the approaching settlement of the Moroccan question must be bitterly felt by England; since it will deprive her oi one of the most dangerous pretexts for setting France and Germany against each other.