Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-09-03
Sudden War
Possible.

Sudden war drag slowly, and solu-
n:l,. ton. il any. may not be
AVsoio1e' reached for weeks. Mean
while journals OF Berlin. Paris and Lon
don intimate that war may result and
unannounced. William the Sudden
in such case would be in the role which
his nom de guerre' attributes TO him.
The Temps of Paris sums up the pres
ent situation somewhat in this way: Ger
many does not care to be reminded of
the treaties of 1905 and 1909. nor of the
sovereignty Of the sultan. the integrity
of Moroccan territory nor the protection
which the kaiser personally proffered.
Germany would not waste time over such
trifes, but says to France. Il offer you
Morocco annexed or protected as you
please. only give me a 'quid pro quo.
something in compensation. l have an
awful appetite for territory.
And France replies: Very tempting, in
deed, but you are asking compensation
for what you have no right to give and
we no right to accept. You called a con-
ference at Algeciras in 1905, where the
powers signed a solemn act. If we have
violated that act all the signatories should
be convoked" Any other attitude on the
part of France would be incorrect, rash
and unwise. Germany. for fact, fears
the verdict Of such conference. and.
therefore. SHES the Algeciras act
Why indeed. did France consent to
conversations" with Germany alone on
question which concerns the powers?
Was it under silent threat Of war?
And yet a cable of the 2sth ultimo
represents Baron Won kiderlen- Waechter.
minister of foreign affairs, as having
declared that he was convinced that
neither France nor Germany desired war
and that the Moroccan affair would he
arranged.
On the same day. however. cable
from Hamburg reporting the kaiser's
speech at a banquet there
Yelled says that Germany's COM
rl,.4 mercial progress had irri-
tated certain governments.
Germany's navy. which had been de-
veioped powerfully, would protect Ger
manys commerce. THE navy repre-
scented the desire of the German people
for salt water"
Another cable from Berlin reports
veritable epidemic of anglophobism in
the pan-aermanist press and among the
people. This press affects to treat France
as feeble factor in the Moroccan dis
putC CH64dIu SOiHlIIS iHlo liic
game as simple "impertnence.'
The Lokal Anzeiger, which is supposed
to reflect government views. writes:
Our most incorrigible and obstinate
enemy is not in France, but on the other
side of the North sea. The real danger
for us is in England's policy, which will
never fail to embrace the occasion to
paralyze our efforts, no matter what we
do
NO cir IN hot
whatever arrangement may be made
with France. the conflict with England
will go oh until it ends in war. 1t is this
that renders the situation extremely pre-
carious.
The liberal British statesmen will re-
call at this moment with no little bitter
ness that the present imbroglio is due in
great measure to British policy. which.
connection with the French at Alex
andria in 1882 England and France.
after the deposition of Ismail Paclla
khedive in 1879. composed under Thew
fiek the joint control of Egypt down to
1882. The British occupation eliminated
France and French interests from Egypt
and alienated Turkey, which is the right
full suzerain, whose powers England has
usurped.
There is no need to follow in detail the
cuIplOyeu Dy EHSldIlu 10 SuppIdnI
France in Egypt. 1t is only
Egypt and necessary to show that
m while England, through
the conservative Cromer.
was executing the Anglo-French agree
ment by which France abandoned her in
terests in Egypt. in exchange for Eng
lands interests in Morocco, Germany was
already paving the road to the execution
of the Germano- Turkish treaty, which
has practically driven British influence
from Constantinople. What a difference
in the value of the German diplomat
work at Constantinople and that of the
British conservative proconsurs at Cairo,
The liberal government at London. hap
PLY for England. is not likely, to try any
more such experiments with majors of
the royal artillery.
But the damage done to British prestige
and power. which was understandable be-
fore 1882. has been accentuated by re-
cent developments. While the world has
been entertained by the marvellous in
nOvations and creations in Egypt: dam
at Assouan. for example, which, paren-
thetically, was an American inspiration,
and a railroad from Mombasa to the Vic
torla NyanZa. which was Gen. Gordon $
inspiration, Germany has been doing.
also, some marvellous things in Africa
quite unknown to England and the rest
Of the world.
Germany has been building an African
transcontfnental railroad from the Cam
erouns east to the Belgian frontier in the
Belgian Kongo at Tgigi, to connect with
the lines from Usambora north of Zanzi-
bar. west toward the Victoria Nyanza
and from the Dar-eS-Salaam west toward
the Tanganyika, all with the object of
uniting with the lines being built from
the west coast. Also we are credibly in
formed that Germany has arranged with
the Belgian lines to connect with them.
as the decentralization Transcontinental
railroad" the completion of which is fixed
for 1912.
which surrounded the Intervention of
Germany at Tangier and
Germany's then at Agadir in Mo-
rocco. Tangier and Aga
1IeteAtS. dir were not objects. but
pretexts to gain time. The African
Transcontinental railroad cuts i'm twain
the famous road from cape to Cairo and
constitutes Germany's challenge to Eng
lands supremacy in africa.
This transcontinental road. it should be
borne in mind, is not a German lnSplrd-
ton but was proposed by the late Leo
pold l, King of Belgium, in the Inter
national Geographical Congress at brus-
sells in 1876.
The liberal British statesman, in the
presence of the German menace. Will
recognize the immense error committed
in the British conservative party policy