GERMANY’S IMPOSSIBLE DEMANDS.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXVI, Issue 13433, 21 July 1911, Page 5

GERMANY’S IMPOSSIBLE DEMANDS.

THE SITUATION IN MOROCCO. A CRISIS REACHED. Threatened Blow at Anglo-French Entente. / Press Association—Telegraph.—Copyright. LONDON, July 20. Owing to tho Veto crisis, and more especially to the sudden and delicate situation which has arisen between France and Germany regarding Morocco, Mr. Asquith’s intended visit to Edinburgh next Monday has been postponed. Cabinet will to-morrow consider the Veto and the German demands. These amount to the complete cession by Franco of the coast and interior from the French Congo as far as the Sanga River, also France’s contingent reversion of the Congo State under the suggested arrangement, which would add another 200,000 to the existing 200,000 square miles of German territory in the land of the Cameroons. While France would retain the hinterland of the French Congo, communication thence to the Atlantic would be exclusively through German or Belgian territory. Tho Times’ Paris correspondent states that although it is not alleged by the German side that France has been guilty of any contravention of tho Algeciras rgreement, or the agreement of February, 1909,' Germany is demandin" impossible compensations, which German statesmen are aware of. It is not conceivable that the French Government could for a moment entertain the so-called compensations of withdrawing a warship for Agadir without the relinquishing of any of the valuable economic rights secured by Germany in Morocco in 1909, nor is there a word that Germany guarantees a better fulfilment of tho promise of 1909 not to impede France’s acknowledged political interest in Morocco. Opinion is spreading that Germany desires France, as a last resort, to whittle the settlement to Mulai Hafid’s ceding the Agadir enclave to Germany. This would satisfy pan-German ambition, and, by directly compromising the British interest, greatly strain the Anglo-French entente. Tho Temps declares that if the negotiations lead to a deadlock, France’s only course is to appeal to tho signatories to the Algeciras agreement. “AUDACIOUS BLUFF.” A Hint to the British Government. LONDON, July 20, The Times regards, tho German demands as’audacious bluff, though possibly not without electioneering aspects, but it also, believea that Germany has not yet shown her hand. The Times adds that possibly the sending of one or two British ships to Agadir might hasten developments. THE ALCAZAR INCIDENT. Spain Makes Full Apology. Received July 21, 8.5 a.m. PARIS, July 20. Spain has fully apologised for the treatment of Boisset. M. Boisett, the French Consul at Alcazar, was arrested by a Spanish force. ANOTHER GERMAN WARSHIP TO BE SENT. BERLIN, July 20. The sending of another warship to Moroccan waters is somi-officially foreshadowed.