THE MOROCCAN TROUBLE.

Otago Witness, Volume 23, Issue 2684, 23 August 1905, Page 24

THE MOROCCAN TROUBLE.

GERMANY CO-OPERATES WITH FRANCE.

LONDON, August 16. The German Legation at Fez has informed the French Charge d'Affaires that the contract for Baron Tdttenbach"s loan has been signed. According to Reuter the loan amounts to 10 million francs. The Sultan hos guaranteed the loan by his Mazagan property. The Times fears that the signing of the contract must inevitably produce a very bad effect on all classes of French opinion. Shrewd observers liad latterly remarked that Germany, rinding a conference no longer attractive, might seek .a means to prevent an assembly. If M. Rouvier, Piemier of Fiance., judges that that is Gei^any's game he will doubtless strive to frustrate it, holding Germany to her word and compelling her to ejiter into a conference, or assume the responsibility of suddenly opposing her own scheme. Three Dutch cruisers, homeward-bound, calld at Tangier, and the German Charge d" Affaires, representing Dutch interests in Morocco, escorted the Dutch Admiral on a visit to Mahomnied at Eltores, and gave a banquet and reception at the Legation. PAiliS, August 18. It is semi- officially stated in _ Paris that Germany's spontaneous formal assurances on several occasions, coupled with France's sincere desire for a settlement, leave no room for doubt of a speedy satisfactory solution of the difficulty in Morocco at the conference. The new&papers urge the Government to adopt coercion on the Morocco frontier in connection with the Algerian prisoner, nowat Fe^ whom the Sultan refused to release at the request of the French representative. August 130. France is protesting against the etoning and robbing of two Frenchmen on the shore near Tangier. BERLIN, August 21. It is semi-officially reported at Berlin regarding the treatment of the chief of the Algerian settlement at Gharb, who was taken to Fez in chains, that if the facts are correctly reported the case constitutes an encroachment on the rights of foreigners. Baron Tattenbach has been instructed to co-operate with M. Taillander with a view to arriving at a satisfactory settlement of the matter. MOROCCO, August 17. Owing to local disturbances the Moorish authorities have brought to Fez in chains the chief of the Algerian settlement at Gharb. M. St. Rene Caillandier, French Minister, protested against such violent treatment, and demanded the chief's release on payment of an indemnity. The Sultan, categorically refused, claiming jurisdiction over Algerians who settled in Morocco. The Sultan has approved of the loan principle, but it still awaits official ratification.