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Show ilELATKN) OF GERMANY AND FRANCE STRAINED BERLIN, July 14. Few momenta in modern International politics h.ve ever been fraught with deeper conaequeneea for tha peace of Burop than that which ushers in he third week of th Franoo Oerman negotiations over Moroooo. The situation Is unmistakably more strained than either the high eon trer ting part ! are willlpg to admit. It ts, In fact, charged with dynamite to a degree that call for the most astute and most altruistic altru-istic diplomacy on both afdua. If It Is not to snd In an explosion. The atmosphere, contain a grim suggestion of gunpowder, because the negotiations have reached a poini where somebody must give way unless un-less the perilous questions of national honor and dignity are not to take the place of more tangible issues now Involved. In-volved. There ran no longer be any doubt that Qermany haa proposed a ''settlement" ''set-tlement" of th aloroccan Imbroglio, which has met with a decisive refusal on the part of Franca. Germany's Offer. It appears to be a fart that Oermany haa offered to declare Its political diain-te diain-te rested uf us In Morocco and to hand ever the country to the aoverelgnty of France on the condition that France glvea In exchange ex-change a huge slice of the French Congo. The"sllce" is tens of thousands of square miles In area, and amhrares the harbor of Libreville, which is tme of the finest porta on the western coast. France haa branded these demands aa (hvlocklan.and flat I v declined to consider con-sider them. She has not actually broken off negotiations as a result of the demands, de-mands, but th pour parlera cannot be ; enewed If Germany Insists anon mak-Ina mak-Ina them the basis for fur' r discussion. This Is the Imnaase at which th situation situa-tion haa arrived. 0rman Proas Views. The Oerman press, ef all ndrtlea, including in-cluding even a pacific o reran like the Frankfurter Zeltung. which apeska for I the great commercial and financial classes. Insists that ths Fatherland can-! can-! not and will not abandon Ita riahta and hones In Morocco, except for very aub-atantlal aub-atantlal compensations there or elsewhere. else-where. Meantime, two of the kaiser's warships are In ftforoooas waters, aa visible vis-ible evidence of urnAnri deiermfnatlon to stand on her dtgnitv and her rights. France's determination not to cower before the kaiser's milled fist will. It Is expected here, be Immeasurably strenrth-ened strenrth-ened by the speech of the British chancellor chan-cellor of the exrheouer. David Llovd George, just delivered. The apeech la Interpreted In-terpreted as in unmlnoed warning" to Germany that the entente cord 1 ale powers pow-ers stand shoulder to shoulder in oe position po-sition to the German demands. |