Oct. 21.
Grawnan regret and anxiety will he occasioned by the—news with regard to the negotiations between France and Germany. A hitch, it is said. has occurred, owing to the inability of Germany to accept the latest offers made by France in respect of compensation and although liter telegrams pu a different complexion on the affair, the length to which the negotiation have been protracted is already cause for uneasy Feeling. The position of France in Morocco, one of complete political liberty of acti wits settled, according to official announcements from Berlin, ax long ago as September 23. That sud conclusion was not only just, bu indeed inevitable, if the difficulty was to be adjusted by peaceful means, is plain, in view of the ignitude of French interests and exertions in Morocco. At the time that this settlement was reached hopes ran high that certain minor points. still outstanding," with which the question ' of compensation appears to have been bracketed, would be the subject of a comparatively speedy settlement. That confidence, a month ago, was shared in both capitals. In France it was hased on the fact that (i Britain was, in a very real sense, standing by to see fair play, no less than on a new-born national self-respect and _self-confident In Germany, perhaps, it was dictated by a feeling of the unwisdom of adopting an uttitnde from which it might subsequently prove inconvenient to retreat. A week later some differences of phraseology diplomatic expression of M. Caillaus's—were interpreted by the French Press as a demand on the part of Germany for modifications on pointe which had been regarded ax settled. The "Westfuelische Zeitung." plunging into the realm of prophecy, delivered itself of the opinion that the time wus rips for breaking off negotiations altogether "as the bulk of the British fleet must he sent to the Mediterranean in view of the Turco-Italian war." On. the fleet declining to carry out this ingenious programme, the negotiations were continued, and the German Press settled down to concoct an alternative plan campaign.
interval followed. during which the Tarco-Italian war proved a stthject of great interest to German official circles and of no interest at all to the man in the street. We have dealt ona
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