THE MOROCCO QUESTION.

Otago Witness, Issue 2714, 21 March 1906, Page 17

THE MOROCCO QUESTION.

MADRID, March 13. Advices from Algeciras respecting ths policing of Casablanca state that it involves the question of whether Morocco shall be internationalised. If this is settled satisfactorily, then a compromise on the banking question is easy. Maich 19. Germany insists that the admission of the Franco-Spanish claim to police Casablanca would amount to, a complete abandonment of the international principle, practically allowing the Tunisification of Morocco. PARIS, March U M. Rouvier's (the ex-Premier) final in- > sttuctions to M. Revoil were to accept -ms share for France and three <> • of xhe French banking establii-hn:. ;.. Jie proposed State bank, and as r-egaiu> the police to provide that . they be FrancoSpanish. He was also instructed to accept the system of inspection and acquiesce in making the inspection as efficacious ;md as strong as possible, but in nowise t~ aMow ►it to be transformed into a big coilabora-, tion. M. Bourgeois upholds M. Eouvier's policy af Algeciras. Correspondents declare that there . are indications that neither Switzerland nor Holland will eeiVe as a catspaw to withdraw Casablanca from the Franco -Spanish sphere of influence, and so enable Germany ultimately to install herself there. LONDON, March 13. The Times's Berlin correspondent says that Sir A. Xicolson's (the British representative at the conference) attitude on the question of the handing of the policing of Morocco over to a neutral international commission is insufficiently appreciated. Sir Arthur's question is : Quis custodiet custodes '! German opinion has been led to under-estimate to France of this and other points still unsettled. March 16. The Times' Algeciras correspondent states that the chance of rupture at Algeciras is great. Neither France nor Germany is able to agree as to the extent of the internationalisation of Morocco.