The Times published on Thursday a summary in advance of
an article in the Benue des DC= Mender by M. Tardieu, the foreign editor of the Temps, who is better known under his innudonym • of "George Villiers." It is an astonishing revelation of the methods of Germany at Algeciras. During the first phase of the Conference the Powers did their utmost to bring France and Germany together. Count Witte and
Mr. Roosevelt made emphatic appeals to the Laser, relying, it is said, on promises made to. them personally. All was in vain. On March 3rd the critical sitting of the Conference took place:at which the exasperated delegates, except the Germans, Austrians, and Moors, agreed to Sir A. Nicolson's proposal that the police question, should be discussed at once. The Austrian plan was then presented. Germany appeared to recognise the feeling of the Powers, and a settlement seemed in sight. But on March 10th the Rouvier Cabinet fell. The German attitude completely changed, as we all remember. Berlin tried to take advantage of the political confusion in Paris to frighten France. This may well have been legitimate diplomacy, but the particular methods used, if these are not misstated, were quite inexcusable. The German Ambassadors everywhere were told to assure the Governments to which they were accredited that France was being abandoned by all the other Powers. Mr. Roosevelt received three telegrams from the Kaiser in this sense. The scheme very nearly succeeded, and the situation was only saved by the denials of England and Russia and the protests of Mr. Roosevelt.
