The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-03
BIG SPECTACLE IN EUROPEAN WATERS Reviews of French and Ger
 man Fleets MOROCCA MAYFAIR Hot Weather in France Promises to Make This Seasons Vintage
 the Best of Many
 Years
Bx GEO. DUFREsNE

Pariss September 2.-(Special.) )-The opening week of September will be a notable one, at least from the spectacu- lar point of view. On Monday the Presi- dent of the French Republic vii review the fleet which vice admiral Jauregul- berry Is to exercise in the tactical ma- neuvers for the following fortnight, and on Tuesday at Kiel, the Gemran Emperor with Admirel Count Montecuccol, com- mander in chief Of the Austrian navy, as his guest, will review the active and re-
 serve squadrons of the High Sea Fleet. In both cases the force assembled will be the most powerful ever collected under their respective flags, and although the German fleet will be in every way the
 more noteworthy of the two-it will con tain seven dreadnaughts-ther is good reason for regarding the French assembly as the more important gathering polit- ically.
 On August 1, the French fleet was nomi-
 naly re-distributed so as to concentrate the whole of the active force in the Med iterranean, but the new system will not come into actual operation until after the maneuvers. The French fleet will then be in a position of superiority to con- bination of Italy and Austria, but the supremacy is not to be very lasting one unless France greatly enlarges her present naval programme, for, as It IS, Italy alone bids for the fair to outbuild France as dreadnaught power
 The negotiations with Germany in re- gard to Morocco are apt to go on TOT at least a week or two yet but the reasons for the delay no longer suggests a. spirit of conflict. It is indeed the weather that has delayed the negotla- tions more than anythink else during the last two weeks. The heat both hefe
 and in Berlin has been ,unbearaple ana
 diplomats want air and rest as wei as other people It is now absolutely cer- tain that an agreement will be reached without having recourse to menace and intimidation.
 I am able to state on most excellent authority that the Kaiser's government has agreed to accept the 1908 accord as
 regulating the political position or frahce In Morocco, and now only desires a rati-
 ficaiton of the accord inasmuch as II deals with economic interests. It must not be forgotten that the essential teature of that document in Gemany's eyes was the guarantee given by France to pro tect and guarantee German commercial interests. From that point or view, ter many has grievance, and the frehci are being brought to recognize the iacl. But 1t Is a slow task. -
 It is incontestable that France Will con cede as much as, honorably to herself, she may concede, for rupture of nego- tiation would entail an internationai conference. than which nothing could De more detrimental to French policy.
 Now that all danger of a iupture has passed. political circles here are busy guessing what Germany really meant with the coup which so rudely Woke up all Europe from it's annual mld-sunh- mer siesta, and most or the sluueh's ui European politics assert that the only exclamation of this, that the Germans are jealous of England as the rival wooer to inc hand of the charming tTench Marianne" The coupe d Agadlr was a reminder how exceedingly disagreeaple the German Herman" can become II Marianne persists in rejecting his propos- al and smiles at somebody else.
 If Is to be admitted that Herman IS not the ideal lover. His manners ars hrusoue. and often brutal; but he IS masterful, and that quality is pleasing to certain female temperaments. Yes, ms oanour propre" is pique that Madame La Republique should have chosen the other man. Forget the regrettaple events of 1S7O' he says in his most con cilatorv mood "Never!' returns the lady. ana f1eTIlldn TO NS<NNef vexed And so he gives sample or his "strong' method. and Europe IS startled in it's summer dream or security bv this sudden descent upon Moroccan waters.
 There is more in this argument than mere allegory The inner significance or the German action is just this: we shall worry you in Morocco-particuiariy If you make any forward move,until YOU wipe the slate clean. acknowledge that ..fait accompli'' in Alsace-Lorra1ne and hold out the hand of friendship to the the neighbor. When you have made thls ees, ture. we shall cease from trouplas' But France knows the price of an under standing of the sort, and. being still a spirited nation, refuses to bow the knee to Beal supported by Krupp guns
 Military aeronautics being now rec ognized department in the French army, tho minister of war has thought 1t well to amplify it by having recourse to the civilian element at grand manoeuvers' France is a nation of soldiers. and all her bri11iant aviators are reServ1Sts. Iney