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Show i oo FRENCH POSITION ; IS STRENGTHENED PARIS, Sept. 19 The long period .or national anxiety attendant on the Morroccan agitations is drawing toward to-ward a satisfactory conclusion. The French peoplo havo been slow In accepting ac-cepting the optimism that has prevailed pre-vailed In Berlin for several days and it -was only today after a semi-olfl- J. j rial communication to tho press based J" on Ambassador Cambon's telrgranhlc s report of Ms Interview with the Ger- j a man foreign minlstor yesterday, that t slfflclcnt reasons appeared for the ! x 'conviction that the six months' un- i - certainty Is nearlng an end. R zl A second semi-official communlca- fcj 5 Hon tonight says thot, although the question of tho economic Interests of ; ? Germany In Morocco appears to bo . 3 on the eve of settlement, there remain ' Z other disputed points still to be set- K f tied. Among these are the questions ; lolatlng to consular courts and a sys- ;: I tern whereby the legation and con- : sulates take certain natives under j; 5 their protection. France desired that Germany shall accept In principle tho ; eventual abrogation of the convention i Of Madrid, concerning the question l of jurisdictions In Morocco, and that i Germany shall not undertake to In- -J it creaEe the number of her proteges i1 while awaiting such abrogation 5 $ The French, particularly the busl- i nos. world, have become weary of the i dally agitations and the confusing reports of what was likely to happen. : It 16 tho most serious controversy j France has had with Germany since 1 g 1S70, and the unity of tt)e people, the ? firmness and tenacity of the govern- '; j raent toward a formidable neighbor. '.. i with Great Britain always as a friend , R in the background, Is regarded by '; J foreign obsorvers as worth the strain " a and worry that have been undergone. Jj France's position In Europe, it Is gen- ' ,. erally considered, has been greatly lJ strengthened. -'.a1 ' Kt The German Demands. I, tf 1 BERLIN, Sept. 19. A semi-official tS news agency, referring to the latest j, m negotiations between the German V, It foreign minister auJ the French am- j: I bassador says that there are German jpl demands of a fundamental character i-BJL which Germany cannot abandon H Respecting these, a former state- 'mm ment was embodied in a letter which ilM was handed to M. Cambon by Hevr A Von Klderlln-Waechtor, but these of ijki ficlals concluded that It was more i'w practical to discuss orally the existing r rift points of difference and try to pre- t f"; pare an outline which would do jus- f. f lice to tho icws of both sides. i I is |