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Show GERMANY WILL CEI ITS SHARE Stakes Claim in Southern Morocco in Anticipation of the Possible Partition of the Country. ! Berlin. Germany, in sending the gunboat Piun her to Agadir, and staking stak-ing a claim in southern Morocco in anticipation of the possible partition of the country, according tr the general interpretation of the Geiman press, will take its share in the province prov-ince of Sus, with its rich copper and mineral deposits, its great agricultural agricul-tural possibilities, unless France and Spain withdraw from the present adventure ad-venture and respect the integrity of Morocco. This is confirmed by the semi-official statement which appears in the Cologne Gazette, pointing out that Prance and Spain, under assurances of purely temporary and benevolent action, both landed troops and occu-. pied territory in violation of the Al-geciras Al-geciras act. Thera .are seine indications, according ac-cording to the Morgen Post, that France and Great Britain have assented as-sented to the step that Germany has taken. Baron Von Kiderlen Waech-ter, Waech-ter, secretary of foreign affairs, has gone on a short vacation, indicating that he does not consider the situation situa-tion urgent. |