The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-23
ger. as we'll as the European residents

ger as well as the European residents in Fez on May 21.
 Before the expedition reached the Moor | ish capital it was declared that it would only just enter the city and take away | Europeans to escort them to the coast.
 The French troops are still their, how ever, and they have extended their ac- ton to many other districts. holstering up the sultan's failing authority, pun ishing'' his enemies, and receiving the submission of the rebellious tribes.
 Seeing this invasion, which they all 1 legged was not justified, the Spaniards would not be left behind in securing their share, and they also landed troops at Marcho (El ArasD on the west coast. and occupied the important sown of AlcaZar.
 The Algerciras act having thus become a mockery, Germany joined in choosing her time very carefully.
 The minister of foreign affairs not lik- ing to be embarrassed during delicate international situation by socalistic in terpellations in the Reichstag which might force him to show his hand with more openness than would suit his game, consequently waited until the reichstag was no longer in session. Then there were obvious reasons why sharp displo- matic issues should not be raised till the | and the German crown prince aud crown princes had returned from London to their own country, but as soon as they wer, hack he made his first move in , game of international checkers which stirred the whole diplomatic world at a time when most statesmen were looking forward to a quiet vacation.
 The question naturally arises What | does Germany want in Morocco? And I AL. nressed in the one word Something. The German chancellor of empire is. a | disciple of Bismarck in so far that ms 5 foreign policy has been true to the doc : Urine of compensations. Ills hrm peliel , is that Germany because of her size , strength and importance among the ma . tionssis justified in demanding a share VT 5 the evolution of the world as whols and in claiming compensating advan , tages for any territorial or political az : grandiznent on the part of another gfea ) power That is the latest phase or th' German "Weltpolitik." This doctrine wal , undoubtedly known to the French oe partment of foreign affairs and may haV'
 stimulated the feeling which has recent!
 found a place in the minds or certaif
 French statesmen-a feeling that it migh
 perhaps be better. after all. frankly t'
 buy off the persistent German opposi
 tion to the policy of pentration ''paclil
 que" and otherwise. Various bribes hay been suggested. Most of them have ad>m brate 'rectifcat tions'' of colonial iron
 tiers. They have not. however, bee
 very cordially received. In papers ver
 amenable to Wihelmstrasse control
 has been emphatically stated that the
 could not be regarded as equivalents fo
 allowing France free hand in the She
 reefian empire
 But Germany has not satisfied hersel
 with merely rejecting the baits held ou to her. She has also indicated in yer
 clear way at least one object which sh
 would be inclined to consider as an ade uuate price for her good will. And tha
 is the harbor on the west coast of Nc
 rocco. It is this fact which lends tn descent on Agadir It's significance.
 spite of all protestations that the occupa
 tion of that port is merely temporar measure to protect German commercis
 interests. and that it is in no way al
 rected against either the integrity e Morocco or the policy of France, 1t
 difficult to resist the conclusion that tn mission of the Panther is part of a care lfuly-aid scheme which has as its oh ject the forcible appropriation of on piece of compensation in case anothe t-<"ai,v ssf'sTantnrv s;nnid not he forth