NEWS OF THE WEEK.
THE international negotiations as to Morocco have not yet led to any definite act. But the French and Spanish Governments have been unremitting during the week in drawing up their joint Note for presentation to the other Powers. The terms of it have already been agreed upon, but • they will not be made known till the Note is in the possession of all the Foreign Offices. The European disquiet of last week has more or less passed away, but it cannot be pretended that there are not still minor causes of anxiety. The Tangier corresporklent of the Times called attention on Thursday to the request of Germany that Kaid Ermiki, who was recently arrested by the Moorish authorities, should be set free. Germany also claimed seven members of Kaid Ermiki's family as German protected subjects. Ermiki is the author of recent intolerable outrages on innocent villages, where property was pillaged and women ill-treated. El Menebhi, who is acting for Mulai Hafid at Tangier, has answered the German application. His answer has not been made public, but he has gone so far as to tell the Times correspondent that in his belief the theory of German protection cannot be made good, and that he objects in principle to setting free a notoriously dangerous man. We trust that it will be found that the German Government was not aware of Ermiki's character.
