Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-30
FROM ALGECIRAS TO AGADIR

military situation. has declared that Ger.
many might be able to overrun France
as 1t did thirty years ago and make
terms before the allies OF France could
do her effective service"
The statement merits contradiction be.
cause absolutely and gravely misleading.
Forty years ago mot thirty only Ger
many overran France because the latter
neglected her army. and the disorganiza-
tion that was the consequence invited
attack and defeat. II was never a secret,
the catastrophe OF 1SIO-71: II was plainly
foretold In remarkable historic docu-
ment communicated to Napo.eon LII by
Col Rossel These forty years which
nave passed have been years of sacrifice
ana hard work, and the French army
mas been completely reorganized and re-
newed Before II had reached perfection
germany would have made war again
He.o)' put Russia interfered to prevent II.
now Germany will never undertake q
war which not even her advantage I'm
numbers will justify. II France desires
ailies It Is to meet. II necessary. the COM
oination OF numbers. Under present con-
oiI1ons she cannot be overrun.
Inc Journal Official OF France contains
Selves. minister Of foreign afrairs. reply
ing TO the Interpolation Of NM Pour
quSry oe Boisserin. Jaures and Valiant.
me minister began by appealing to the
a. ION. and patriotism Of the chamber.
conversation" The minister asked that
II might be permitted to proceed In the
CAIN and dignity becoming two great
powers which converse together. When
me hour came they might be assured
that he would be the first to tell them
now he had acted. They would say
whether he had been equal to the task.
Tor the moment he would QUIT the tri-
oune In requesting their confidence. They
q IN hat h.
would be conducted with the fixed pur-
pose or guarding the interests and The
dignity Of the country
Inc Temps, commenting upon the re-
mat the chamber OF deputies adjourn
adjournment which was accorded bv n
vote Of 47s to T-said:
IT was at a delicate moment that
these interpretations were thrown at the
minister. No government could nerrnif
such IN action. ,.r'h less than auy ather
a ministry which had promised to gov
The policy OF Spain during the p.,t
three months IL in fragrant contradiction
TO the Franco-Spanish
SPANS agreement of 1904 and the
Policy. principal clause Of the Al
NJ. Canalejas is inexpIicable; but the
present conversation. or possibly a fu-
ture conference Of the powers. will put a
check certainly on methods which more
resemble those Of governments like Haiti
or that OF Castro than Of a once identified
and respectable government Ike Spain.
1t does not appear that Austria ap-
proves Of Germany's action at Aradir
any more than she did at Algeciras. Ger
tain journals at Vienna whose German
sympathies are unmistakable declare.
nevertheless. that the affair at Asadir
reveals again the diplomatic isolation OF
Germany. The Zeit writes;
Germany has with her apparently only
spain. Will n because Of her opposition
to France may support Germany
ION Austria-Hungary, as to whose
attitude there Is some doubt, Germany
may prehaps count. But the panger-
manist Berlin journal Taeeel che Rund-
schau does not believe in Austria's friend
ship and expresses the belief that Austria
VII be guided by her particular interests
The fidelity Of the Niebelungen praised
by Emperor William. was perhaps true
is no longer the mode at VIENNA"
The German press Of all parties. even
the pacific Gazette de Frankfort, which Is
the organ OF the best commercial and
financial classes. insists that Germany
large compensation in Morocco or else
where.
NJ. Bassermann, chief of the NATIONAL
liberal party. addressing his party re-
Gently. expressed the same views. follow
ing n this the views contained IN the
article by Prof Hans Dulbruck editor OF
the Pruss'an Year Book. Herr Dulbrutk
writes:
England has raised SO many dificulties
that Germany has been able only slowly
q 20 h.
undertaking Of the Bagdad railway. Is
the great German people to permit itself
to be permanently inclosed within its
continental frontiers and from behind
Russia, the United States and Japan a.
vide the world among themselves? The
Fatherland must larger be, seems TO be
the answer to this INQUIRY Southern
Morocco with its Atlantic ports and its
rich hinterland Is worth a good deal.
Some day In Wilhelmstrasse the German
statemen may decide that It is even
worth European war"
The Gazette de rAllemaene du Nord
explains the sudden and rude Intervention
OF the German empire in
Germany's the west coast OF Africa.
The German government
GAcuse' has submitted as a pre-
text the protection OF the interests or
the six German brothers Manresnann,
who compose the German commercial
house OF that name.
The Mannesmanns have hgured from
the first as a pretext for the visit to
Tangier Of the kaiser in 1905. They
are represented as rich. energetic
and enterprising. having branch houses
as bankers or industrials in America
as well as In Africa, and rivaling tie
Yankees In commercial audacity."
Remscheid In Westphalia and Dussel-
dorf Is the family residence OF the
Remscheid. which con-
tanned 10000 Inhabitants in 1870. now
counts 10000 The Gazette dale
maene recounts that 1t was the eldest
who visited North Africa
on his honeymoon. but was not so full
Of honey as not to fill himself up with
industrial resources of Morocco.
What part Italy may take. IL any, In
an assumed conflict cannot be well
Italy at present is act
ing very shy. Her familiar maxim
may be invoked. Italia fara da Sc"
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