MOROCCAN AFFAIRS
SURPRISE AT GERMANY'S ACTION. " DIRECT CHALLENGE TO FRANCE." Press Association—By Telegraph-Copyright. LONDON, July 2. The Observer notes that Arzila is within the Spanish sphere of influence; therefore the occupation of Agadir is a direct challenge to France. PARIS, July 2. Within an hour of the semi-official announcement that the Franco-Spanieh differences respecting Morocco had been settled, the- intimation of German intervention came«"a6 a bolt from the blue." GERMAN INTERESTS IN MOROCCO. BERLIN, July 2. The Cologne Gazette Btates that large cultivated tracts in the vicinity of Agadir and far into the hinterland belong to German firms. The property of one firm alone equals in size a principality, while another firm employs 120 persone, including 60 commercial agents who are Ger man proteges. German trade in Southern Morocco of late has greatly expanded. The bulk of such goods, though appearing in the statistics ae British imports, art exported by German firms to Germany, via England. The paper adds that Germany is also considerably interested in mining in the hinterland. .
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 15186, 4 July 1911, Page 5
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