Evening star., 1911-08-25
Makes Final Offer to Avert
War With Germany.
LONG SESSION OF CABINET
Ministers Grave as They Meet Presi-
dent Fallieres.
CRISIS MAY BE DELAYED
Another European Conference on
the Moroccan Question Among
the Possibilities.

PARIS. August pa cabinet council
was held today when the course of the
French negotiations with Germany over
the Moroccan dispute We're unanimously
approved as were the instructions to
Jules Cambon. the French ambassador to
Germany, as drawn up by NJ. De Selves,
the minister of foreign affairs. and AM
bassador Cambon, after long conferences
in which Premier Caiilaux, L. lie Brun,
the minister of colonies, and NJ. Cruppi,
the minister of justice, participated.
The instructions to NJ Cambon contain
according to an earlier announcement.
the maximum terms which France will
offer to Germany in order to reach a set
tlement. The council convened at 10
o'clock under the presidency of the pre-
mier and Immediately began a considera-
ton Of the instructions. which had been
submitted to President Fallieres at Ram
boullet yesterday by the premier.
Ministers Are Grave.
The ministers entered the cabinet room
at the ministry of the interior in a spirit
Of much gravity, for 1t had been felt
throughout the week that the decision of
the cabinet today would have a serious
import for France.
The session of the council lasted for
two and one-half hours, portion of the
ters relating to finance, the disappear
ance Of Mona Lisa" Leonardo da
Vinci's masterpiece, from the Salon Carre
of the Louvre, and the abandonment or
the autumn maneuvers in northern
France. owing to aphthous fever among
the troops The maneuvers, 1t is prob
able. will be held in another part of the
country.
The cabinet adjourned to meet August
81 at Ramboullet under the presidency of
President Fallieres.
Not an Ultimatum.
Although the instructions cannot be re-
garded as suggesting an ultimatum, yet
an important step has been taken toward
rupture or an accord, depending upon
how the German government receives the
proposals.
The instructions endeavor to phrase the
French conception Of Germany's position
in Morocco, and authorize Ambassador
Cambon to offer specific parts OF French
kongO in exchange for the absolute rec
ognition by Germany Of French rights
in Morocco.
1t may take a long time for either side
to say the last word in negotiations such
as these, but should they be interrupted
after Ambassador Cambon reopens the
discussion in writing with Herr Won Kid
erlen-Waechter, the German minister OF
foreign affairs, a new international con-
ference might follow, or a long period OF
strain and suspense in which neither
power would do anything except glare at
the other.
Getting Ready for War.
Both France and Germany are carrying
on war preparations. and each power ap-
Al~~k ,l0
1t. Doubtless, as a diplomatic maneuver
there is a little rafting of the saber to
show mutual earnestness.
Nevertheless. in q time of tension such
as this. war must be among the contin-
gencies considered by craftsmanship. The
word war is used more frequently this
week in the conversation of serious
Frenchmen than 1t had been used in any
previous period since 1906. Generally it
is used interrogatively in the sense that
"Can it be possible that we must fight?"
and lis Germany pushing us into war;"