WAR CLOUDS DARKER.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3313, 4 September 1911, Page 5

WAR CLOUDS DARKER.

ANGLOPHOBIA IN GERMANY. MOROCCAN SITUATION GRAVE. “PERSISTENT ENMITY TO ENGLAND.” C UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. BERLIN, Sept. j. There is the most violent outbreak of Anglophobia since the Boer war. The newspapers discover sinister motives in Sir John French’s present visit to French fortresses on the German frontier. Persistent enmity to England is the. keynote of most of the newspapers’ articles. The Kiel review on Tuesday was the most powerful yet displayed bj r Germany, 125 vessels of all classes participating. Several noisy anti-British meetings have been held at Berlin and other places. VIENNA, Sept, 1. The Reichpost states that the position of the Moroccan negotiations is grave, owing to Britain’s sudden interference. The Germans are weary of the unending British intrigues, and feel sufficiently strong to make themselves a place on the firmament in spite of England’s impertinent veto.

“STAND FIRM, WILLIAM.” DEMONSTRATION TO THE KAISER SEDAN DAY CELEBRATIONS. (Recieved Sept. 3, 5.5 p.m.) BERLIN, Sept, 2. Owing to M. Gambon’s indisposition, the conversation in reference to Morocco lias been postponed until Monday. On quitting the parade ground cheering crowds followed the Kaiser. Many voices shouted :

“Agadir: Stand firm. William; the people are behind you.” The "Sedan” Day celebrations are exciting Germany’s warlike spirit, and stimulating hostility towards England. Every patriot is wearing the William I. corn-flower in crape badges.

Several, hundred officers and thirty thousand men are afloat for the Kiel review.

[On September Ist, 1870. the fortress of Sedan was the centre of the most disastrous conflict of the Franco-German War. Shut in by the Germans, _ who had occupied the surrounding heights, the whole French army, after a terrific contest, was obliged to capitulate, the Emperor, 39 generals. 230 staff-officers, 2000 officers, and 83,000 men, becoming prisoners of war.]

CONTINENTAL BOURSES DEPRESSED. (Received Sept. 4. 12.45 a.m.) LONDON, Sept, 3. The Continental Bourses are depressed over the Moroccan situation.

WHAT GERMANY DEMANDS.

“MONSTROUSLY UNFAIR EAR-

CAIN.”

AN INVOLVED SITUATION

Writing concerning the German, demands, the Paris correspondent of the “Times” remarked on tiie 19th of last mont:—“The proposed bargain is so monstrously unfair that its proposers cannot seriously have believed that it would be entertained in Paris. What, then, can be their object, The opinion is spreading here that Germany desires to narrow the practical choice for France to relinquishment of the Agadir enclave bv the Sultan of Morocco in favor of Germany. This solution would have two advantages from the German point of view. It would satisfy PanGerman and naval ambitions in Germany, and by directly compromising British interests it would put a, perhaps, fatal strain upon the AngloFrench Entente. Kindred suggestions, j such as the establishment of a. “char- j tered company” or companies in the Hinterland of Agadir, would, if realised, be mere steps towards the radical solution of a German acquisition of territory. They in any case amount to a violation of the integrity and. independence of Morocco, since the rights of a “chartered company” imply the local exercise of independent authority. It is true that on all sides the assurance is given here that France, both in her own interest and in that of her partner in the Entente Cordiale, will never consent- to any of these solutions at the expense of Moroccan territory. In that case she is left face to face with the impossible German demands in the French Congo or with the alternative of the continued “demonstration” at Agadir and the possibility of a German landing and occupation in force, which its effects upon the natives. may at any moment produce. There is, however, another set of suggestions which has been tentatively put forward by the “Frankfurter Zeitung,” and which represents a return to the German aims which were frustrated by the Prince Bulow’s policy of “bluff” in 1905 and at the Algeciras' Conference. These suggestions amount to nothing less than a. general reconciliation of France and Germany on the basis of the unreserved opening of the French Money Market for the benefit of the German national credit and German industrial enterprises at home and abroad. I am assured that at this time of day this project is not favored in any influential quarter in France—not even among those who may be called the political heirs of the late M. Rouvier. It lias now been universally recognised that the political consequences of a settlement on this scale would be too farreaching, and that, quite apart from the question of Anglo-French relations, it would mean the death-blow to the Russian Alliance. And behind these and other insuperable objections there remains the vital question of Alsace-Lor-raine.”

FRENCH MINISTERS CONFER. AMBASSADORS CALLED TO PARIS. The French Ambassadors to Berlin, London and Rome were in conference with M. Cailleux, the Premier, the other day, focussing their diplomatic wisdom on the Moroccan situations, foi

which purpose they were all specially summoned to Paris. The Ministers of Justice and Marine also have conferred with the Premier preparatory t-o a special Cabinet meeting at,the end of the week. EXCITEMENT ON BERLIN BOURSE BASELESS RUMORS. Rumors that were circulated on the Bourse that the Moroccan negotiations between France and Germany had been broken off caused a heavy slump in securitieffl. . , v , _ Inquiries soon revealed that t-nere was no .foundation for the reports, which appear to have emanated from Vienna, . , . , Government officials maintain the belief they have already expressed that an agreement with regard to Morocco is practicable. MOROCCO AS SHE IS. QUESTION OF MINING CONCESSIONS. Morocco is a country rich in minerals, and a large number of financial syndicates, most of them of a- moie oi less cosmopolitan character, lay claims to mining concessions. Of these the two most powerful are the Mannesmanu o-roup and the Union des Mines MaroSaine. The Mannesmanu Brothers m 1908 professed to have acquired concessions worth £10,000,000 for a sum of £15,000. In a collection of documents published by the German Foreign Office at the beginning of 1910 it was explained that the German Empire regards the enterprises of the Brothers Mannesmann in Morocco with the utmost goodwill that is compatible with avoidance of deliberat-e breach- or biiiai,ncr international agreements and treaties! It was “precisely out of respect tor tho Mannesmann undertakings that Germany, in the summer of 190 b, entered a successful protest against the intention of the then Sultan Abdul Aziz, who was completely under the influence of the French, to proclaim a mining law which favored exclusrv ely the interests of the French. It was in consequence of this protest---upon the initiative, therefore, of Germany —that on August 20th. 1908, the _ Algeciras Powers arrived at a resolution to the effort that the Sultan should issue no ■mining law without the co-operation of the Algeciras Powers, but that the mining law should be discussed by the Powers in common before it wars proclaimed.”