In a debate on foreign affairs in the Reichstag on
Thursday Prince Billow declared that Germany had no political interests or aspirations in Morocco, did not desire to interfere with the historic claims of France or Spain, and had no wish to have a hit at England. She merely wished to protect her economic interests and to show that she could not be treated as a negligible quantity. It is with great regret that we record that while Herr Bebel was replying the Chancellor was attacked by a severe fainting fit, from which he did not recover for some time. The Prince, it appears, has been suffering from influenza and overwork, and the effort of his speech was too much for him. Happily, there seems every reason to believe that the seizure was merely of a temporary character, and will not involve any serious consequences. As to the speech, we can only say that if Germany had no real objection to the action of France, Britain, and Spain in regard to Morocco or to the entente, she chose a very strange way of showing her amicable intentions. It reminds us of the Irishmen who were found " fighting like devils for conciliation "I
