A DELICATE MATTER.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3281, 28 July 1911, Page 5

A DELICATE MATTER.

THE MOROCCAN CRISIS. MR. ASQUITH TO MAKE A STATEMENT. “WHAT CAN GERMANY CLAIM?” (UNITED PBESS ASSOCIATION —COPYBIGHT. LONDON-, July 26. Consols are at 77 13-16ths. German bonds and French rentes have also dropped. [On Saturday consols were quoted at £7B 10s.] Mr Asquith will make a statement regarding Morocco in the House of Commons to-morrow. Mr Asquith and Sir Edward Grey had a lengthy conference at the Foreign Office. Mr. McKenna, First Lord of the Admiralty, and M. Cambon, the French Ambassador, also visited the office. Lord Kitchener subsequently called. A GROUNDLESS 1 REPORT. Reuter announces that the cancelling of the Atlantic fleets’s visit to Norway is not connected with the Moroccan situation. Consols touched 77-1, hut closed at 781 on the Stock Exchange, owing to rumors that the Powers have arranged a conference on the Moroccan question in October, Germany withdrawing meanwhile. BERLIN, July 26. The Cologne “Gazette” declares that if France wants merely to act on the Algreciras agreement she can settle matters by withdrawing her troops and opening the door wide. The international code giving guarantees does not regard Morocco as a French colony. Germany, after securing her economic interests in the Sus district, will doubtless withdraw from Agadir. _ The Gazette continues: “The burning point is what compensation can Germany claim for France’s increase of power in Morocco.”

SPEECH BY MR. ASQUITH. WAR RISK BUSINESS CONSIDERABLE. (Received July 28, 12.25 a.m.) LONDON, July 27. yU. Ascraith’s Mo-roccan statement m the House of Commons to-day is eagerly awaited. Considerable business has been done bv Lloyds in- the matter of war risks.