The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-20
MOROCCAN TROUBLE !. WEARS SETTLEMENT Negotiations Enter Into a
 New Stage MINISTER'S CONFER Semi Official Note Issued to Convince France That Trouble With Ger
 many Is on the Eve of
 Settlement

Paris. september 1o.-The long period l of national anxiety attendant upon the l Moroccan negotiations is drawing toward
 satisfactory conclusion. The French 1 people hare been slow in receiving the l O ,otlmism prevailing in Berlin for sew eral days, and it was only after a semi
 official communication to the press based er Amba ssador Cambon's telegram to the foreign office dealing with his inter- view vita the German foreign minister l yesterday. that sufficient reasons ap- peared for the conviction that the six months' uncertainty is nearing an end. A semi official note issued said that the French negotlations with Germany en- tered a new stage during the conversation
 between the Germand foreign minister Herr von lNiderlin- Waechter. and the Frenen amba ssador to Germany. NJ. Cam Ion, yesterday. promising an early agree l ment.
 1 The note says that Herr von kiderlin- Waeehter did not give, M. Cambon writ ten reply, but talked over with him cer- 1 tain notifications in q spirit of concilia- l tion. No document was handed over be- cause time would have been lost in trans hitting il to Paris and in retransmitting the reply to Berlin. The conversation did not consider all divergencies, the note says Another conversation will take place Thursday. and 1t is believed at the end of the week the negotiations will reach d crisis.
 I A secoond semi-offleial communication l says that although the question of the I C oononlic interests of Germany in Mo
 rocco appears to be on the eve of set clement, ftllere remain other disputed 1 ronts stlll to be settled. Among these
 are the questions relating to consular courts and a system whereby the lega- | ticns and consuiates likewise take cer-
 tain natives under their protection. 1 France desires in this respect that Germany shall accept in principle the eventual abrogation of the convention
 of Madrid. concerning the question of l jurisdictions in Morocco and that Ger | many shall not undertake to inereas SC l the number of her protegees while l awaiting such abrogation.
 1 The French people. particularly the l business men, have wearied of the daily | citations on the ,Bourse including l doubts and r,mors of what was hap I pening or likely to happen. II is the | most serious controversy France has
 had with Germany. since 1870 and the unity of the people the firmness and l tenacity of the government toward a 1 formidable neighber with Great Brit ain always as Q friend in the back ground is regarded by foreign observers 1 as worth the stress and worry that have been undergone. Frances posi- | tion in Europe, it is generally eonsid- cred, has been greatly strengthened. Berlin, September 19.-A semi official news agency, referring to the latest l negotiations between the German for l eign minister and French ambassador. | says there are German demands of | fundamental character which Germany 1 cannot abandon. Respecting these a l formal statement was embodied in a | ter Nlicb was, handed to M. Cambon 1 by Herr yon Kderen- Naechter but 1 these officials concluded that 1t was more practical to discuss orally the
 existing points of difference than to prepare an outline which would do l Justice to the views of both sides.
 There arose, however, several counter proposals which the negciiators agreed to submit to their governments.