. Review of reviews and world's work . M. JULES CAMBON, AMBASSADOR OF FRANCE, ANDHERR VON KIDERLEN-WAECHTER, THE GERMANFOREIGN SECRETARY, DISCUSSING IN BERLIN THEEXTRAORDINARY SITUATION BROUGHT ABOUT BYTHE AGADIR INCIDENT(From a sketch by L. Sabattier in the Illustrated London News) administration and the German colonizationon the dark continent. The text and illus-trations of this article indicate graphically thelarge stake for which Germans and French-men are now playing. The only one not con-sulted in the matter is the Sultan of BARON ALFRED VON KIDERLEN-WAECHTER, THEPUGNACIOUS GE


. Review of reviews and world's work . M. JULES CAMBON, AMBASSADOR OF FRANCE, ANDHERR VON KIDERLEN-WAECHTER, THE GERMANFOREIGN SECRETARY, DISCUSSING IN BERLIN THEEXTRAORDINARY SITUATION BROUGHT ABOUT BYTHE AGADIR INCIDENT(From a sketch by L. Sabattier in the Illustrated London News) administration and the German colonizationon the dark continent. The text and illus-trations of this article indicate graphically thelarge stake for which Germans and French-men are now playing. The only one not con-sulted in the matter is the Sultan of BARON ALFRED VON KIDERLEN-WAECHTER, THEPUGNACIOUS GERMAN FOREIGN MINISTER BritainsFirmStand The problem assumed the propor-tions of an international questionof the first magnitude on July 22,when David Lloyd-George, Chancellor of theExchequer, and one of the most importantmembers of the British Cabinet, addressingthe bankers of London, declared that whilethe British Government did not propose toexpress any opinion regarding the sovereignrights of France and Germany to settle colo-nial questions that concerned them alone,nevertheless, he was quite sure he spoke forall his official colleagues when he said, if a situation were to be forced upon us in whichpeace could only be preserved by the surrender ofthe great and beneficent position Britain has wonby centuries of heroism and achievement, by allow-ing Britain to be treated where her interests werevitally affected as if she were of no account in thecabinet of nations, then I say emphatically peaceat that price would be a humiliation in


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