Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-01-09
GERMAN PAMPHLET ISSUED
Audisnoe Of German Consul with Sultan OF
Morocco is Reported
FRANCE SAID TO HAVE TRIED TO DEC civ
Allegation Made that French Minister
TO Morocco MisIed the RuIer as
TO Action of European
Powers.

pamphlet on Morocco, consisting of forty
two pages, with extracts from twenty
seven documents, appeared today and fur
nished good reading for those who have
followed this long controversy The publ-
cation, however, contains nut few interest
ing features. It begins with a symposium
OF the newspaper cuttings expressing the
aspiration Of the French to attain exclusive
! jurisdiction in Morocco and representing
that the French minister at Fec had as
sumed the mandate Of Europe to urge the
| execution of reforms in Morocco.
The sultan of Morocco on December q
received in audience Herr vassel. the Ger
man consul at Fec and talked over the
general situation. II am willing" said the
sultan, Ito treat three or four powers
equally with Germany and Great Britain
on account of their trade. and France and
| Spain because they are neighbors."
The sultan inquired whether the French
minister could claim general mandate or
not and the consul replied that Germany
had not granted such a mandate.
! The sultan said he was pleased to re-
! ceive this information Herr Vassel. in a
dispatch dated April 81 on the sutan's
! state, of mind after the speech OF NJ. Del
casse, the former foreign minister Of
| France, in the French senate March 81,
| said Mulai Abd-El-Aziz was excited by NJ.
Delcasses declaration that the Moroccan
| government has asked Frances advice and
! would follow 1t.
During the audience the sultan cried:
But these are absolute untruths"
Herr Vassel continued.
Il told him that the French deny that NJ.
{ strene Tallandier uhe French minister at
Fez) claimed European mandate"
! Tho aultan said
1.-The French expressed themselves to
me in that senese.'
! ION my asking who had so expressed
/ himself the sultan answered:
| IN. Strene TaiIlandier himself. asked
| him which nations these were. | knew that
Germany and Italy had not consented to a
mandate. NJ. Strene said nothing. and
| drew my conclusions. which were confirmed
by the course OF future events"
French View of Pamphlet.
PARIS, Jan. s.--The German pamphlet Or
white book Morocco, issued today by
Berlin, received prominent attention here.
| II is particularly noted that Germany has
no French dispatches on which to base its
claims. the German thesis being maintained
by dispatches from German agents to nat
uraIly present the French intentions toward
Morocco in an unfavorable light
Participation of United states.
WASHINGTON, Jan. s.-Senator Bacon
! introduced today a resolution requesting
| of the president a detailed account of the
negotiations resulting in the appointment
OF delegates from the United States to the
conference soon to he held at Algeciras,
Spain. for the purpose of considering GER
tain questions relative to the commercial
and political affairs of Morocco and in
which the governments of the leading pow
-rs of Europe, including Germany. France,
Great Britain, Italy, Austria and Spain. are
expected to participate. The senator ex-
poets to speak on the resolution tomorrow.
! The preamble to tie resolution says:
THE questions al issue and the relations
OF European gevernments thereto are re-
! puted to be Of such gravity and the an
tagonistic demands OF European govern
ments to be so acute as 10 endanger the
peace of Europe. as is evidenced by the
publicly announced preparations for war,
in the disposition of troops and fleets and
the gathering of war materials by several
of said European powers, and is also evil
denoed by press dispatches from the capt.
tails of said powers"
The resolution then quotes dispatches
from Paris, London and Rome
Italian Ministers STARTLING View.
I ROME Jan. "a former cabinet minis
| ter, who is a statesman of note and likely
to return to power, has written an i'm
: portant article in the Corriere Della Sepa
on the international situation in connection
t with the Moroccan conference. He says he
/ thinks that the real antagonism is between
Germany and Great Britain. War between
these two countries he points out, would
have dreadful effects, 1t necessarily
would involve other powers, leading to a
! retrogression of centuries Whichever side
is victorious, the writer asserts, Europe
would have to cede the supremacy in civ
, ilization to America and Japan, who would
become the dominators OF weak and dis
Outraged Europe. Germany or Great Brit
ain cannot wish this, he says, and con
sequently they probably will come to al
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