GERMANY AND FRANCE.

Otago Witness, Issue 2677, 5 July 1905, Page 30

GERMANY AND FRANCE.

THE MOROCCAN QUESTION. GERMANY INSISTS ON A CONFERENCE.

LONDON, June 28. The German newspapers persistently and untruthfully accuse the British press of inciting France to defy Germany. It is alleged" in Berlin that, at the Kaiser's instance, President Roosevelt warned Great Britain that this incitement was the chief danger in the maintenance of peace. The Bourse Gazette, in an extraordinarily violent article, denounces the Kaiser as a public danger. France, fearing a .sudden German attack through Belgium, urges the overhauling oi the fortifications on tho Mcuse and afc Antwerp. June 28. M. Rouvier and Herr Radolin had a cordial interview. It is expected France will accept a conferen2e if the Sultan proposes a. programme, and the order tempolarily prohibiting the transit of Moorish troops and ammunition for Ujda through Algeria is rescinded. Germany's reply to M. Rouvier is courteous and conciliatory. It insists on the conference on Moroccan affairs, and opposes &ny preliminary understanding regarding the progr;umn3. It admits Fiance's special interest in Morocco, and is willing that the task France has in establishing order and security on the Algerian frontier shall be facilitated. BERLIN, June 27. The Kaiser recently impressed upon the representative of a Great Power that although Germany kept a powerful army, which was always ready for its mission, it was essentially a peaceful one, since Germ my would never initiate aggression in Europe unless to by the weight of circumstances. VIENNA, June 27. , The Fremdenblatt states that Austria supports Germany over the question of the proposed Moro23J "conference. ST. PETERSBURG, June 27. Some Russian newspapers, commenting on Germany's desirs to see Russia tempo- ; rarily impotent, declare that a triple alliance of Great Britaia, Japan, andRussia is not a remote possibility. Then Germany will find Russia less powerless than she expected.