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THE ANGLO-FRENCH AGREEMENT, j Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, June 2. (Received June 3, at 7.40 a.m. , } The House of Commons, without a division and without a. single discordant note, read the Anglo-French Convention Bill a second itime.after debate. Mr Balfour saitl that in some aspects the convention was one of the greatest international agreements on record, and the beginning of a new and- happier era in international relations. He personally thought that the great danger to the peace of the world lay in the relations between non-Christian and Oriental States and the Great European Powers. The convention had removed Morocco out of the category of States dangerous to European peace. Mr Balfour, however, admitted that there was a- difficult and daugerous question affecting British and French riglrt-s in Muscat* aiul stated that it would be: referred to The- Hague Tribunal.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 12991, 4 June 1904, Page 9
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