FRANCE IN MOROCCO.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 15, 30 December 1911, Page 5

FRANCE IN MOROCCO.

REPORT OF FRENCH COM- • MITTEE OF INVESTIGATION. FRANCE’S POSITION DEFINED. Paris, December 29. The Senate Committee of Investigations into the Morrocan agreement revealed that the Franco-German agreement of 1909 undertook that they should he jointly associated in industrial and -commercial enterprises. Britian objected at the unfairness if thp proportionate participation which Germany and Franco proposed ;o allot to the various Powers in the 1911 agreement. This rendered he arrangement impracticable and a aew convention imperative. At M. Caillaux’s wish the explanatory letter accompanying the 1909 igreement was not read in the Senate.

Mm. Caillaux and Doselves stated the letter was withheld because Germany objected to its publication. It was surmised that Germany was concerned as to its possible effect on a section of German opinion.

Sir E. Grey was informed of all the circumstances connected with the conclus’ou of the 1909 agreement, and declared the agreement was not open to objection. M. Jules Gambon’s despatch was read in committee showing that Herr Kiderlin von Waechter complained that France’s opposition to the Baghdad railway was contrary to the spirit of the Morrocan agreement of 1909.

31. Pichon now requested the committee to expressively report that the igreoment did not refer to Eastern affairs, and no promise or allusion was ever made in that respect. Another despatch showed that Herr von Kiderlin Waechter on June 1 intimated that as Germany was not allowed to occupy Mogador compensation must he sought for outside Morocco.