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According to a statement in the Daily Mail of Friday,

which we have no reason to regard as otherwise than correct, the German demands are specifically given as :— (1) Two hundred miles of coast and the hinterland of the French Congo. (2) A sphere of commercial influence in Morocco, which necessarily involves territorial occupation or control. (3) The right of pre-emption which France has over the Belgian Congo. The Daily Mai/ holds that these demands are so tremendous that they are intended to be rejected in order to give Germany an excuse for remaining at Agadir. The German calculation is that Russia, Britain, and France will not hold together, and insist on the abandonment by Germany of her predatory tactics.

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