The Archive · 1904

GENERAL NEWS

THE ANGLO-FRENCH AGREEMENT — London vid Bombay, Sth December

The French Senate has adopted the Anglo-French Convention by 215 votes to 37,—Reuter.

Luter, Delcassé, in the course of the debate on the Anglo-French Convention, said its opponents concentrated their criticisms on the question of Newfoundland, yet all that France abandoned was a valueless. fish-owning right exchange for important compensa tions elsewhere. The Convention was the result of a foreign policy based on a definite plan which had been followed perseveringly for six years, and by which Spain and Italy had been conciliated, while Great Britain no longer saw in France anything but a tried worker, whom it would be difficult to replace, in the field of peace and concord,—Reuter.

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