Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-06-07
SHIPS WILL NOT STOP
FLEET AT LISBON NOT TO GO TO
TANGIER. -
According to the Original Plan It Will
Proceed to Greciah
Waters.

The State Department has decided that
nothing in the situation in Morocco war
rants change in the itinerary of the big
battle ship fleet under Rear Admiral Bar
ker's command now lying at Lisbon. Por-
tugal. So, according to the original plan,
those ships will get under way on the 10th
instant. and enter the Mediterranean, not
stopping at Tangier. but proceeding straight
on to Grecian waters.
There were no advices today from Ad-
miral Chadwick or Consul General Gum
mere, hence 1t is inferred that they have
not yet received the sultan's answer to
their demands.
The following cablegram was received at
the State Department yesterday from Con-
sui General Gumnere, dated Tangier.
June q:
Feast passed without disturbance. Stu
alton unchanged Awaiting reply from
court"
mail report from the consul general
relative to the Perdicaris case also reached
the State Department yesterday. 1t was
dated May 20 The report spoke bitterly
of the situation and said that there Is no
doubt that the kidnapping of Perdicaris. al
though he had been a public benefactor,
was most popular with the Moors who
openly declared that this first incident VIII be
followed by others of the kind. The whole
country. the report said, appears to be
seething with discomfort and the govern
ment is well nigh powerless The consul
general regarded it of the utmost i'm
portance that a warship be sent The
americans standing In Morocco, he said,
has not been one of Importance, and the
Moors have little no regard for the
United States or its representatives con-
sidering them as of little Importance Mr.
Gumniere s report showed he was much i'm
pressed with the gravity of the situation
ana expressed a conviction that it was only
by an extremely delicate negotiation that
very serious consequences could be averted
Ambassador Porter has supplied the
state Department with copy of the vel
} low book issued by the French government.
| containing all the correspondence that has
been exchanged between that government
| and the government of Great Britain in re-
| gard to Morocco. Egypt Newfoundland,
AFRICA and other possessions where the
| two nations have come into contact The
| document sets out in detail the undertake
| ing on the part of Great Britain to recog-
nlze the dominance of French interests in
MOROCCO; the arrangement of the long sta nd
| Ing dispute between the two governments
as TO conflicting interests on the fishing
| shores of Newfoundland, including the
| bait taking privilege, and the extension of
| the first undertaking between the two gov
! ernments to divide African territory in the
neighborhood of Lake Tchad and north
ward IT was because of a knowledge of
| the sections of this treaty bearing on Mo-
rocco as cabled by Ambassador Porter tina t
! the State Department applied in the first in
| stance to France to assist in obtaining the
release of PerdicariS from his bandit CAP
| tors.
British Squadron Off for Tangier.
| GIBRALTAR, June THE British Medi-
| terranean squadron sailed for Tangier this
| afternoon.