Note 26 — Chapter I

Exactly what the Sultan requested is not known. Count Bülow, the German foreign minister, heard in June, 1900, from an Italian source that the Grand Vizier of Morocco just before his death had proposed to Salisbury, the British premier, that the Powers guarantee a new boundary to be made between Algeria and Morocco, but that the British Minister had refused to consider the matter. See Bülow to Tschirschky, June 5, 1900, G.P., XVII, 318, No. 5167. On the Sultan’s proposal of October see Monson to Salisbury, Oct. 12, 17, 1900, B.D., II, 259, Nos. 312 f.