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Show FRENCHMEN MEMO i Raised Trench Flag at ! Agadir and Are j Called Down ', Berlin, Oct 6. A group of French- s! men hoisted a French Mag over the fort at Agadlr, Morocco, threatening gravo international complications. It Is announced that France has proclaimed pro-claimed a protectorate and that a French cruiser was en route for Agadlr Aga-dlr The French government Immediately Immediate-ly disavowed the action and, as it is not represented at Agadir, Instructed the French consul at Mogador to ask the Moroccan authorities to tako measures to remove the flag and end the Incident. i According to the latest advices, the Frenchmen wero defying the local caliph of Agidlr, who, on his own responsibility, re-sponsibility, had ordered tho French colors lowered, but It Is expected f that the Frenchmen will yield when , f they learn that their government has j disavowed their act. P The caliph appealed to the com- ' Jj mander of a German warship In tho ( V harbor, but he refused to Interfere It The French flag was planted on an j I anclont bastion dominating the town : R and which the overzealous French L patriots had occupied In the absence I of the garrison They fired a salute 1 IE and sent word to the Germans to , V leave Agadlr, which they declared had ' Ifl become a French possession. The incident, according to tho dls- R patches received here, created ex- (fc cltement in southern Morocco, but tho L German foreign office is satisfied p with the counter-measures adopted by V& the French government. , jfji: |