THE SUEZ CANAL.
r ' STATEMENT BY, THE PREMIER. . " (BY TELEGKArni—rRESS-'ASSOCIiTION.) "7 7- ; . Russell,; Februarv, '27. . In this course of his' speech this - Premier referred to the Exorbitant.-rate?.'" farmers and travellers' had''to., pay through .'tho 31 per \ j'Sent.' the '.French,' lrere iiiaking:.;riiit ."of tho Suez Caiial shares.' He considered ; it ; .'?vas a grand * stroke" of ' policy on ,tho\ part of Disraeli when lie seenred t-licKo'shares', but with the revolution that lmd' gone on in the Old World,, what was'nil fright" 25:.ycahfisi-ga was not all right to-diiy7. In a7few ;years the Panama 'Canal would bo' opened7\ ; by "fcho United States with a high protective, tariff, -making the joiirney. home for cargo steameia four days shorter.- ; Was ; ; it-■'.likely v, that v Americans wuro going to drive ."-.their.."" tnido away'to Suoz by excessive lernlfe? .vThoiigh this'fact ' was ; -impressed fiipoiv/'Mio'; British Government, they v stood"'.".ht7'pn'So;j:irt7'tlifc , matter; 1 •Shn .illiposit.ioir ■t!i:tt'':\vas' affecting their trader'-m rospcct.of rnies at Stioz should ' bo- At the Imperial Confe'rcnco ho had urged this, and,: .in addition,' that Australia and Now Zealand should have a representative on - Iho Suez Canal Hoard to stir thp members of .it up'to tho fact'of the injustice being done to producers, v-' ■'
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 133, 28 February 1908, Page 4
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195THE SUEZ CANAL. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 133, 28 February 1908, Page 4
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