SMS Berlin Deployed/ Cartoons of Moroccan Crisis

July 4, 1911:  On this date, the German Foreign Office announces that the recently arrived gunboat SMS Panther, into the port of Agadir, on the Moroccan Atlantic Coast, will be relived by the much larger cruiser SMS Berlin. The Berlin is three times larger that the Panther. The German response is to the deployment of French and Spanish forces to quell an uprising against the Moroccan Sultan. The move by German is in an attempt to prevent a land-grab by the French, further isolating Germany in what they considered another act of encirclement.

As these events play out, the world press presents a more humorous aspect to characterize the Moroccan Crisis of 1911