CABLE NEWS.
AMERICA AND THE PANAMA CANAL. IMPORTANT DECLARATION OP THE UNITED STATES. | USUTSB'S TSLIGKA.MB.I London, 16th December. A despatch from the United States Secretary of State to Mr. Haasell Lowell, the Minister to London, on the eubjeot of the projected Panama Canal, has been published to-day. Mr Blame dwells in forcible langunge on the growth of American interest* in 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 asserts the right of the United States against that of the European Powers to control the Isthmus ef Panama, and points out that such control would offer the absolute neutrality of the canal. The despatch concludes by stating that the claims of America cancelled everything which might be deemed to forbid her fortilying her control of the projected highway between the Atlantic and Pacific.
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Evening Post, Volume XXII, Issue XXII, 19 December 1881, Page 2
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149CABLE NEWS. Evening Post, Volume XXII, Issue XXII, 19 December 1881, Page 2
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