The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-24
France and Germany Have Agreed
After Their Long Quarrel
Over Little
Morocco.
WAR HAS BEEN AvERTED
Kaiser Forced His Country Into the
Controversy and is Forced
Out BY The Capital
lists.

iJ0ANl>JAN, oCpI. St.--All udASCI vi
a Franco-German war over the latest
Moroccan ENHANCEMENT. is known in
government circles here this Sunday
morning to have passed with the dis
patch late last night of Frances re
ply to Germanys last note concern
ing a settlement.
England has been kept infinitely in
formed as to every stage of negotia-
tons and it is stated on highest
Dowing street authority, that even
to the smallest details the Berlin and
Paris cabinets are in accord concern
ing Morocco.
Arrang ements for the transfer of
portion of French Congo to Germany
are yet to be disposed of, but as this
amounts only to question of select
ing suitable phraseology, there is no
possibility that further difficulty will
be involved
The French note was dispatched
following yesterdays approval by the
cabinet of its terms, as drafted by
Premier Cailleaux and Minister of
fOASi6h AluiS DS oeiNSS. luC
meeting was held at President Fall
aries residence at Rambouillet, with
all the ministers in attendance. APP
prevail was unanimous The text of
the reply is still kept secret, but the
English government has been kept
informed all along.
It is not to be supposed that either
France or England is pleased at the
necessary necessity for making con-
cessions to Germany. Nor, indeed, is
Germany particularly pleased at be-
! ing driven by financial pressure to
modify it's original demands upon the
/ Gaelic government.
England and France feel, on the one
side, that Germany forced itself into
/ a situation which did not concern it
and insisted on compensation for
nothing whatever. On the other hand
/ the Germans were undoubtedly CO
creed into comparative modification
by the threats of English and French
capitalists, who are enormous cred
| itors of the fatherland, to force a
Teutonic default amounting to many
/ millions of marks on settlement day,
| next Tuesday. Germany will neither
| receive so large share of influence
/ as it desired in Morocco nor so ample
a slice of the French Congo as it de.
sired France and England feel, how
! ever that the kaiser is not entitled
/ to any concessions whatever Partly
! from financial considerations and
! partly because its navy is in no con
/ dition to be matched against Eng
land, Germany could not we'll go to
extremes. England is, to be sure, far
more than match for Germany by
sea and is, from its insular posi-
tons, safe from German attack on
] land but realizes that clash such
I as was threatened over Morocco
/ would have spelled destruction for Its
4 ally, France. in whose welfare Eng.
! lis. interests are tied up to an en-.
/ ormous extent.
Though settlement is certainty
/ so far as the present complication
/ is concerned, officialdom here is far
! from sanguine concerning the future
1t is considered that the German at
titude in Morocco leaves no doubt OF
the kaiser's determination to break
! the Anglo-Franco alliance by persist
4 ent annoyance of the French--a
course of persecution which he thinks
England will be unable to put stor
to until France, Disguised with a
partner who makes many demands
on Frances good will but is never
prepared to give anything in return
! drops out of the combination and per
haps even join forces with Germany