Documents in Diplomatic Deceit.

INTERNATIONAL relations; HISTORY of war; DIPLOMATIC negotiations in international disputes; FRENCH foreign relations; AGADIR Incident, 1911

FRANCEReport Available; MOROCCOReport Available

This article presents information on war history in Europe. Following the occupation of Fez, the capital of Morocco, by France in June, 1911, Germany sent the gunboat Panther to Agadir in early July, 1911, thus precipitating a European crisis which was eventually solved by the elimination of Germany from Morocco in exchange for a slice of French Equatorial Africa; that Russia, with England, sustained France in this crisis; and that throughout the period Russia continued secret negotiations with Germany about spheres of influence in Persia and railroad lines in Turkey connecting with the Bagdad Railway. Russia also was secretly organizing the Balkan League. In the autumn of 1912 the First Balkan War broke out, again almost involving a European war.