CANAL DEFENCES
PANAMA PROTESTS AGAINST LAND SEIZURE.
(vmti:d rncss association.—copteisiit.) (AUSTRALIAN - NBW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.) NEW YORK, 15th January.
The Government of Panama has sent a vigoions Note to the United Tptates protesting against the seizure by American officers of a small tract of ground east of Colon for the defence of the Panama Canal. The incident recalls Mr. Ro'osevelt's encouragement by which the Panama Republic was created. Mr. Roosevelt quickly recognised Panama, which immediately ceded to the United States the canal tract which Colombia had refused to grant.
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Evening Post, Volume CI, Issue 14, 17 January 1921, Page 7
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89CANAL DEFENCES Evening Post, Volume CI, Issue 14, 17 January 1921, Page 7
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