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Show FRANCE HAD AN AWAKENINU. Found She Couldn't Be Aggressive, So Set to Work WASHINGTON, Jan 3 Neither the American F.inbassador to France nor the like offlclal at Berlin could treat of the situation which now 1 xlsts between France and Germany In any report which ould be published here without Involving him In trouble. But It Is believed be-lieved that the explanation of Ihis last German movement Is to bo found In the fact that last July, when the Morocco situation developed an acute phase, tho French general staff discovered the entire en-tire army, and ejpeclall the transportation transporta-tion facilities, were not In a condition Justifying France In adopting an aggn s- sie attitude, So the negotiations sud-denl) sud-denl) assumed a mild tone and have dragged along up to this time Gets Army in Condition. Meanwhile the general staff went to work with great assiduity t correct tio evils which had developed, with the result re-sult that within the last ten days it waa discovered that In the opinion of military mili-tary experts the French army Is In hi t-ter t-ter condition than at any period In Its hlt'ir The weakest point last summer wa discovered to be In the mobilization, and this has been si rcngtlieiu d en that the ast bodies of troops can be collected col-lected at the popular centers and transport trans-port d to the frontier posts In an In-credibl) In-credibl) short period of time. it : believed here by officials who have kept c)oe watch on the situation that the Germans hae likewise been quietly and as far as possible sejcretl) Increasing Increas-ing the efficiency of their army. But when the Internal resources failed in the matter of producing a sufficient number Of military railway cars and It became net eaaary for the German Government to go to foreign countries for the needed supply. It was patent that urh an order could nut te concealed. Bo to make the bet of the situation this news of the placing of the vast order for transportation transporta-tion material was boldly announced from Berlin as an answer to the French unofficial statements as to tin- piiparol-m piiparol-m . f France for military action. United States Has Rights. Aa to the part the United Stales is to play in the approaching Moroccan conference, con-ference, it may be stated on the best "f authoiit that Messrs. White and Gun-nere, Gun-nere, the American delegates will go into the conference absolutel) uncom mltted to either the French or the tier-man tier-man contentions. The Government's view is that America has, b virtue of her ancient interest In Mori rights even superior to those of any F.uropi.m state In deriding the critical questions which will come before the conference. The basis of this statement is thai America, single-handed made war upon the Barbary states wiped out piracy in Mediterranean waters and oiicludr d th" first treaty of any civilized nation with those states, a treaty which has formed the basis of the demand of ever) other nation for favored-nation treatment at the hands of Morocco. Stands Uncommitted. So. from consld rat Ions such as the perpetuation of the open-door nnd fair trade for all In Morocco the United States Government feels that It has right and duty to participate in this inmortant conference As to the question of policing polic-ing the Moroccan frontier, they stand uncommitted either to the German proposition which favors the creation of an International police force, or the French plan of employing Algleiian polli z for this purpose. |
