The best foreign news of the week is the settlement
of the Casablanca incident. The deadlock caused by Germany's insisting on a one-sided preliminary expression of regret by France lasted till Tuesday morning, when the French Ministerial Council, presided over by M. Fallieres, instructed M. Jules Cambon, the French Ambassador in Berlin, to sign the compromise which had been arranged. This declaration states that "the two Governments, regretting the incidents
which occurred at Casablanca on September 25th, and which led to acts of violence by some of their subordinate (subalternes) agents, have decided to submit all the questions raised by this affair to arbitration. By common consent each of the two Governments undertakes to express regret for the acts of its agents which may be condemned by the decision of the Court of Arbitration on matters of fact and questions of law." It will be seen that the new formula not only accedes to France's refusal to express a one-sided regret, but also yields to her demand to submit questions of fact as well as questions of law to arbitration.
