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Show GERMANY HOPEFUL OF I ' PEACE OVER MOROCCO I Inspired Newspapers Make the 8tate- I ment That France Won't Fight I Over the Questions Involved. I Berlin. While government circles f maintain an outwnrdly hopeful attlJ " H in do regarding the conference at AlgeJ H ,zlras, tho indications aro that much H ;conccrn is felt about tho outcome. H Evcn a falluro to reach an agreement jon tho pollco question Is regarded as W rob able. This Inference Is drawn1 rom tho fact that tho Inspired press' Sias begun discussing the probable re-fnilts re-fnilts of a falluro to reach an agree-ncnt. agree-ncnt. Theso papers assert that n falluro would not Involvo tho danger of war jso far as Germany Is concerned, nnd jthcy nrguo thnt Franco would never igo to wnr on account of Morocco; Theso papers Interpret tho warning bf tho Hnvas agency against "excess pvo optimism" as proving the paciflo intentions or tho French government. Tho result of a failure to reach an Egroemont would be, according to erman Inspired utterances, that Mo roccan affairs would contlnuo to bo! regulated under tho arrangement ot ?880. More critical obscrvors point out) that tho controversy of 1890 orlglnnt cd dcsplto tho arrangement, nnd thnt 9 the confcrcnco being duo to Gormnnl initiative, Its falluro would involve serious damago to German prcsticc. The Hamburger Nachrlchtcn says nl falluro of tho confcrcnco would Intenj , siry the friction between Germany and i Franco nnd compromlso Germany's f position. |