Note 576 — Chapter XI

Report from Vassel, German vice-consul at Fez, Feb. 23, 1905. According to a second report from him, March 7, the French Minister had claimed to have “the approval of his proposals by the foreigners” (ibid., pp. 255 f. n.; Auswärtiger Amt, Aktenstücke über Marokko, 1905 [Berlin, 1905], No. 3). The latest communication received by the German government from Vassel, before the dispatch of the note of March 10, was of Feb. 17. See Kühlmann to Bülow, Feb. 21, 1905, G.P., XX, 255, No. 6557; Bülow to Kühlmann, March 10, 1905, ibid., 260, No. 6561.