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GETTING TOGETHER
ON MOROCCAN CASE
French and German Delegates
Have Almost Reached an
Understanding.
BERLIN SENDS INSTRUCTIONS.
VIII Yield on Police Question II Views
On Bank Matter Are
Accepted.

Algeciras, Spain, March 20--Ex-
treme animation prevails here, the
delegates to the Moroccan conference
believing that inaT results are near
at hand. Unless an agreement Is speed
fly secured. the representatives of the
neutral powers threaten to interrogate
the French and German representa-
tives before the conference. NJ. Reg
nault, the second delegate Of the
French mission, has taken the initiative
and has prepared the draft of an
agreement seeking to reconcile the
French and Austro-German projects
The committee has already approved
a portion Of the Regnault plan but the
disputed soint relative tn the inspec-
ton OF the Moroccan police remains
unsettled The French are prepared
TO accept the principle of inspection
but will not accept foreign control
Therefore 1t remains to secure middle
ground In which the protection will be
sufficiently effective to satisfy the Ger
mans without establishing foreign COM
troll of the Franco-Spanis police.
INSTRUCTIONS FROM BERLIN.
Berlin. March 90, $50 p. m.--Herr
Won Radowitz and Count Won Tattcn-
bach, the German representatives at
Algecras, have been instructed by the
foreign office here, provided France
meets the German views on the ques-
ton of the Moroccan bank. to yield
on the police question to the extent of
giving up Casa Blanca as the head
quarters of the inspector general but
retaining a neutral inspectorship with
real powers OF control over the police.
Previous adVices from Algeciras have
led the German government to expect
that such proposals would be accept
able to France Therefore, although
no dispatches have been received from
Algeciras today the foreign office here
is convinced that settlement Is In i'm
mediate prospect
EXPECT EARLY SETTLEMENT.
Paris, March Gothic foreign Of
fee expects All early understanding at
Algeciras. but no Information to the
effect that such an agreement has ac-
tually been achieved has reached Paris.
AGREEMENT REPORTED
the Evening News Of this city, tele-
grams were received w London from
Algeciras today stating that the Moroc-
can conference had reported am agree
ment satisfactory to all parties.
RUSSIA NOT WAVERING.
Paris, March g0--owing to reports
that Russia wAs wavering I'm her al
iegiance to France at Algecras. the
Russian ambassador here NJ Nelidon,
today delivered to Foreign Minister
Bourgeois n copy OF a dispatch which
Foreign Minister Lamsdorff has Just
sent to Count Cassini, the Russian
representative at Algeciras, declaring
that there Is no truth in the state
ment that Russia had counseled France
to accept the Austrian plan or had
advised her TO confess the control OF
the police at Casa Blanca to neu-
trail power. The dispatch added;
THE imperial government has never
ceased and never will cease 10 act to-
wards France as a faithful ally, desir-
ing thus TO promote a successful aolu-
ton"
NO CONFERENCE TO-DAY.
Algeciras. March 20.--The Moroccan
conference did not hold session today
but the committee discussed the
French and Austrian police projects.
A concillftory spirit prevails, but no
definite conclusion was reached and
the decision went over until tomorrow.
The feeling among the delegates has
improved owing to the resumption of
deliberations, although no new tangi-
Bile developments have occurred.