FOREIGN AFFAIRS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCIV, Issue 14416, 11 April 1911, Page 5

FOREIGN AFFAIRS.

_——* FERMENT IN MOROCCO. SPAIN TO HELP FRANCE. Press Association —By Tel.—Copyright. PARTS, April !). M. Cruppi, Minister of Foreign Af- ■ fairs, speaking in the .Senate, said that if the situation at Fez became diffi- , cult he would take necessary measures within the provisions of the Algoeiras Act. to ensure the security of Europeans. MADRID, April 9. Senor Prielo, Minister of Foreign Affairs, informed the Senate .thaiSpain and Fiance had offered .each other mutual and efficient support .-in Morocco. Senor Canalejas, the Premier, speaking in the Chamber,'said-that Franco had intimated that the time had come to make preparations in anticipation. «f events in Morocco. The Spanish Government would take .all requisite ' measures ,in Spanish possessions, and wherever Spanish instructors were stationed. ATTACK ON THE CAPITAL. TANGIER, April 10. . Three thousand Berbers who unsuccarsfully attacked the south-eastern walls of Fez, retu-cd. Then, skirtin" the' southern hills, they renewed the attack in the afternoon near the Sultan's palace, in the south-west of the town, and well within the range of artdlery, which under Colonel Mangin maintained a heavy cress fire, drivin" the.tribesmen on to the olains to the westward.' ALBANIAN SUCCESSES. CONSTANTINOPLE, April 9. Ten battalions have been despatched to relieve. Cettinge. The-Albanians, .after two days' fighting, have re-surrounded Kastrali and Tuzi, and re-occupied all the forts 'except, Shipshaiiik. Montenegro permits the Turkish trounded to be transported to Scutari,' via Montenegro. . BUSY SPIES. At the trial of Maimon, Rontet, and Pall'er, charged with removing documents from the Foreign Office,, the Magistrate produced ten copies of documents, .seized at Maimon's residence, relating to the Bagdad railway. Routet admitted that he 'communicated four. ~;:',. Th? newspapers state that the docu-. ments-that' were removed were used to' make Russia believe that France was cooperating with Britain against Russian interests. It is. variously states that Sir Edward Grey was offered tho documents, and informed M. Pichon. A Londonnewspaper received a similar offer and \ also warned M. Piclioii. Maiinoii has had a picturesque career. He was born in Syria, and serv- . cd Abdul Ham:.-! for many years as a' spy. He obtained the'Jconcession of the Bagdad railway. The suspected disclosure- is the tenor of the Russo: German Potsdam proposals. Routefc abstracted the paper and Pallier copied the documents and returned them to Routet. ■ " , . MORE SPIES IN GERMANY. Received 10.15 p.m., April 10th. BERLIN, April 10. ' A gang of spies wns arested wliilo stealing at Schweidenitz secret mobilisation plans and selling them to Russia. NAVAL DOCKYARD STRIKE. Seven hundred employees of the Scliiechau naval yard at Danzin, where the battleship Ereatzaegir is building, struck for an increase of Wages. THE ARABIAN REBELLION. CONSTANTINOPLE, April 10. Five hundred Arabs and 150 Imperial troops were killed at Sinanpasha, near Sanaar. The rebels elsewhere were dislodged from their entrenchments and a hundred killed. SLAUGHTERING ONE ANOTHER. Received 10.15 p.m., April 10th.' ; _ LONDON," April 10. New York advices advices state that a revolutionary force composed of eighty Americans, commanded by an American ex-quartermaster, attacked a position held by 500 Mexican troops, and that the attackers were repulsed losing sixty killed and wounded. On the other hand ninety Federalists were 1 ambushed and annihilated at Atl-xco. BRAZIL'S NEW .WARSHIP. Received 11.15 p.m., Anri! 10th. LONDON," Arril 10. The Brazilian battleship Rio de Janeiro, und;r construction at Els- ! wick yards, will be armed with 14-inch 'guns, and have improved armour protection.