The situation in Morocco does not improve. The German Envoy,
Count von Tattenbacb, is an energetic as well as overbearing man, and he seems to have convinced the Sultan that if he will emancipate himself from French "influence," Germany will see that he comes to no harm. Although, therefore, Great Britain has absolutely refused to take part in any Conference with Morocco for its subject, the Sultan ostentatiously flouts France, and some tribal aggressions on Algerian territory, which had been discontinued, have been renewed. It is stated, moreover, that Germany is asking and receiving " concessions " ; in particular, one of a right to construct docks and a port in close proximity to Tangier. That project, if carried out, might affect France, Great Britain, and Spain very closely, and be the commencement of very serious complications. Frequent interviews are going on between M. Bouvier and the German Ambassador in Paris, and it is believed that these interviews refer to the German desire to obtain some special diplomatic hold upon South Morocco. Obviously diplomatists are ill at ease, and inclined to wish that Russia would make peace with Japan, and thus restore the European equilibrium.
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