Note 696 — Chapter XII
Reading edition
Bülow to Monts, May 31, 1905, ibid., 390 f., No. 6670, and note citing a dispatch from Monts of June 2, 1905; Mévil, p. 272. Egerton was informed by Barrère that Monts had said to Tittoni that “if the French Minister maintained his threat of military measures against the Sultan of Morocco, a German army would cross the French frontier” (Egerton to Lansdowne, June 13, 1905, B.D., III, 95, No. 122).