22 JULY 1911, Page 1
Friday's news confirms the rumours, prevalent earlier in the week,
that during the diplomatic conversations between Germany and France the Germans have asked for " compen- sation " as the price of their leaving Agadir. Their demand is that France shall surrender to them practically the whole of the French Congo, or, at any rate, all that is worth having, that is, all the seaboard and the greater part of the hinterland. When the French ask what is to be done with the isolated inland scrap left to them the Germans are said to reply that a railway might be made. This is very like saying to a man when you confiscate the ground floor and the stair- case of his house that if he wants to use the bedrooms, you will let him have a rope ladder.
