INTERNATIONAL SITUATION

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 10955, 21 December 1911, Page 4

INTERNATIONAL SITUATION

GERMANY THE STORM CENTRE. [Br Electric Telecraph—Copyright.] (Per Press Association.) Received December 20, at 10.30 p.m. Paris, December 20. In the Chamber, on the Moroccan debate, 31. Benoist stated that the wholly French policy in Morocco since 1902 had been a series of mistakes initiated by the systematic ignoring of Germany, i M. Jaures declared that~France was now paying for her mistakes. France had ultimately established only a shadowy protectorate in Morocco, where German capitalists possessed the southern mining concessions, while the railway construction stipulations strengthened Germany's position. He accused the Government of encouraging Italy to snatch Tripoli. • * London. December 20.

Mr Ramsay Mac Donald, at Caxton Hall, declared that the democratic foreign policy should centre itself on Germany. It was necessary to disarm the suspicion felt in Germany towards England, which would never be done bv piling up big naval expenditure. Cairo, December 20. The Nationalist journal Alalam has been suspended for three months for publishing violent articles against the Government. The Porte has ordered the withdrawal of the handful of Turks garrisoning Solum. Teheran. December 20. The anti-British boycott at Shiraz has ceased.