Count von Tattenbaoh, the German Envoy to Morocco, has accorded
an interview to the special correspondent of the Echo di Path, and has explained his ideas with some clearness. He contends that the Conference about Morocco for which the German Emperor wished has already been secured. The Envoys of the great maritime Powers are about to meet at
Fez, and might just as well have met at Tangier. The basis of negotiation, he continues, will be the Convention of Madrid of 1880, and not, therefore, the Anglo-French "Agreement." We shall see, when Mr. Lowther, the British Envoy, readies Fez; but intermediately the French correspondent is evidently a little downcast. He says the Moroccan Divan has consented to the French terms provided Germany approves them, and is trying to play off the Powers against one another. France, it is clear, according to this statement, is to humiliate herself by abandoning her special position, and allowing everything in Morocco to drift. We suspect that the French Govern- ment, without abandoning anything, will "go slow," awaiting events ; that the Sultan, who knows that France is on his frontier, will not agree with his Divan; that no special privilege will be granted to Germany ; and that everything at Fez, as elsewhere, will await the result of the Russo-Japanese War. Unless the question is forced on by the German Emperor, there is no particular reason why Morocco, which has waited centuries for reasonably just government, should not wait another year or two.
