THE MOROCCO TROUBLE.

Otago Witness, Issue 2663, 29 March 1905, Page 19

THE MOROCCO TROUBLE.

THE KAISER'S VISIT.

LONDON.

March 23

The Times says that the North German Gazette's assurances as fo the unpolitical character of the Kaiser's visit are satisfacloiy, but the visit is not paiticulaily well timed, and the leferenees to Tangier are singularly uncalled for. The circumstances of the two crises me altogether different. Moreover, Bismarck instigated the proposal that Fiance should intervene in Tunis for the purpose of introducing a bone of con- ' tcntion with ihe other Powers. Great Britain, in accordance with the AngloFrench Agreement would cordially as&iso France in following its own lines. Germany had no more and no less claim on Morocco than any other European Power.

March 24.

It is stated that the Kai^r's visit to Tangier is viewed in ofrioidl quaiters in Paiis -without disfavour or apprehension. PARIS, March 22.

The Beiber and Benihasan tribes disobeyed the summons cf the Sultan of Morocco to attend him o.t Fez to- discuss M. Taillandier's proposals. They decline all communications, on the giound that M. laillandier desires the establishment of military police in the border districts and othei economic reforms.

BERLIN, March 23

The North German Gazette, replying to the criticism of foreign newspapers, says : "There is no reason why the Kaiser should' not include Tangier in his Mediterranean tour. Thp German policy — namely, no acquisition of tenitovy, but a maintenance of the cp^n door and equality of economical piivileges for all nations — Is so clearly expressed that any attempt to represent the visit as the beginning of a new political move is hopeless. Although Count yon Bulow expressed his belief in the Reichstag that Germany's ■economic interests "n ere not thieatened, France hnehheretofore tailed to inform representatives of non -French interests how she proposes to reconcile in practice the Sultan's sovereignty with her pacific guidance in the lestoration of order. French guidance in Tunis led to the almost complete dispossession of non-IFrench interests. We hope nothing of the sou is threatened in

Morocco, hence we see no occasion to even contemplate the possibility of a disturbance of the correct relations of France and Germany."

TANGIER March 24,

The Biitish colony at Tangier is erecting a municipal sircb, with inscriptions welcomina the Kais-er.