Evening star., 1911-08-28
MAY Be NEAR WAR
This Is a Critical Week for,
France and Germany.
PEACE HANGS BY THREAD
Speedy End Expected to Negotia-
tions, Which Will Be Reopened
Thursday.

BERLIN, August 2S.-Another week,
intellectually pregnant for the peace Of
Europe opens. The Franco-Ger-
man negotiations over Morocco are
destined. unless all signs fail. to reach
a decisive juncture before another
seven days have gone by. Next satur-..
day, September 2. is Sedan day."
whereon the Germans commemorate
with fervor the anniversary OF the an.
initiation by them of French military
power forty-one years ago. good
many journals fix this year 8 anniversary
as the day when q decision will be
taken no less momentous for the glory
Of Germany than the day Of the sur
render of Napoleon III to the 'old
kaiser.
Ambassador Cambon is expected to-
return from Paris today or Tuesday
and the negotiations with Foreign Sec
retary Won Kiderlen Waechter,, who is
still in Switzerland, will be resumed,
it is said, Thursday.
Delays to Be Avoided.
The new conversations will not be
marked by the delays which chiefly dis
tinguished their futile predecessors be-
cause Ambassador Cambon Is returning
with something closely approaching a
French ultimatum. 1t will be tncum-
bent on Germany to indicate its atti-
tude with some promptness. because the
new French proposals will leave little
doubt as to the extreme limit wnicn
the republic is prepared to go 70 puy
off German molestation in Morocco.
The inspired German press Is already
limiting at the possibility OF q negative
result from the new negotiations. Inc
Fatherland. 1t is declared. faces such an
,eventuality without fear Of embarrass--
ment; the kaiser's warships will simply
continue to occupy Agadir and dare.
France and England to put them out;
that would. of course, mean war.
The Berliner Neueste -Nachrichten says:
I'VE await such contingency with the
calm of a nation which has in Its armed
forces the confidence which they de-
Serve.'
England Greater Peril. i
The most conspicuous feature Is the
violent and warlike epidemic OF Anglo.
phobism which is sweeping over the
country. The Lokal-Anzeiger. which in
variably reflects the sentiment OF the Tor
eign ofiice. says:
'.The one important lesson which the
Germans must learn from recent events
is that our most incorrigible ana most
restless enemy Is not France. but on the
other side OF the North sea. Our rear
peril is in the policy OF England, which
misses no opportunity to embarrass us
and to hinder our progress in every d.
rection."
Similar strong words are employed in
the semi-oficial Cologne Gazette, which
undoubtedly in q highly agitated state,
owing to the anti-German maneuvers OF
the British government throughout the
Moroccan crisis.
The German war party, represented by
the PangerTnan press, continues to assail
the kaiser for his reputed insistence upon
an amicable settlement with France, no
matter on what terms. His majesty's
speech 1T Aitena on Friday. wherein he
declared his readiness that his royal sons
should sacrifice their lives on their coun-
try's altar III things become grave" Is
widely Interpreted as HI answer t0 those
detractors who insinuate that the kaiser
is for peace at any price.