B.v the Associated Press.
PARIS. August 31.—France's reply
to the recent Spanish memorandum
flatly rejects the demand by the Mad
rid government that the international
district of Tangier be included in the
Spanish zxitne of Morocco.
The reply will be forwarded In the
regular mails either today or tomor
i row, the text to be given out in .Mad
rid. While rejecting the .Spanish de
mand, the note is coached'in sympa
j thetic terms and recalls that French
j and Spanish soldiers were brothers in
! arms against a common foe in the RifT
for many months*
The reply is understood to express
surprise that the Spanish demand
should also have been presented to
Italy, which, it says, has no interest
in Morocco.
The Spanish situation continues to
intrigue Paris. Reports of all sorts
of trouble originating in London are
received with a certain amount of
skepticism, which is strengthened by
denials of an official and semi-official
j nature.
The Journal, which usually is es
pecially well informed with regard to
Spanish affairs, scoffs at the rumors.
It remarks, in this connection, that
the Prince of the Asturias, heir ap
parent to the throne of Spain, “who
has been represented as at death's
dor,” went from Santander to San
Sebastian yesterday in perfect health,
passing through country where the
utmost calm reigned.
RESIGNATION IS PREDICTED.
