FRANCE AND MOROCCO.

Colonist, Volume L, Issue 12152, 29 January 1908, Page 3

FRANCE AND MOROCCO.

Received January 28, 9.58 p.m* Paris, January 28. M. Picbon,the Minister of B'oreign Affairs, in a speech which was watmly applauded, defined France and Spain's joint pohny, and mandatories to Europe to restore order in the coast districts of Morocco, and to establish police. France, he Asserted, would maintain a prudent neutrality regarding Morocco's internal affairs. France's Moroccan policy was pait of her general foreign policy, which was neither the work of a man nor the Government, but the work of the Republic, which had regained the position it was entitled to in the concert of Europe. France had cleared up the misunderstandings between Britain, Russia, and herself. The agreement with Britain and^Spain entitled France to act in Morocco,yet she needed authority when complications arose, for those agreements did not go so far as to deal with the danger of war. The Conference and the Algeciras Treaty gave France's rights a new basis. France would not accept a .Morocco more internationalised than ';*- tuna rtnriu-r + h«fr troflfcv.