The Archive · 1904

The Reconciliation of England and France

London vit Bombay, Sth April

Reuter's Telegram Ca. learns that the Anglo-French negotiations have reached their closing stage.

The concluding conference between Lord Lansdowne and M. Cambon took place to-day.

The final reference was subsequently made to Paris—Reuter.

London, 8th April.

Apart from the details of the Anglo-French Agreement already published, France guarantees freedom to British' trade with Morocco for thirty years; Great Britain cedes to France the islands off French Guinea, also a strip north of the Gambia. The agreement regarding Egypt. and Morocco is embodied in a declaration the other questions are embodied in a separate convention—Hxelusive service.

London vii Bombay, 9th April.

The Anglo-French Agreements have been signed.—Reuter.

Later.

In the Anglo-French Agreement, as regards Siam, France and Great Britain recognise the respective spheres of influence established by the treaty of 1896, but they explicitly guarantee the integrity of Siam and the maintenance of the status quo,—

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