CABLEGRAMS.
IRKUTKR'S Telegrams.]
AMERICA AND THE PANAMA
CANAL. LONDON, December 16.
A despatch from tho United States Secretary of State to Mr Russell Lowell Minister to London, on tho subject of the projected Panama Canal, is published to-day. Mr Blame dwells in forcible language on the South American interests ia the Pacific, and draws attention to the solicitude which has been shown by Eng. land to control the route to India ,via the Suez Canal. He asserted ihe right \el the United States against that of European Powers to control the Isthmus of Panama and pointed out that such a control would ■ offer absolutely the neutrality of the canaL The despatch concluded by stating that the claim of America cancelled everything which might be deemed to forbid her fortify, ing her control of tbe projected highway between the Atlantic and Pacific.
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Auckland Star, Volume XII, Issue 3547, 19 December 1881, Page 2
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