NEW TREATY SIGNED
LlllUOn IH PANAMA ZCKE PANAMA, April G. Provision for - transportation of liquors through the Canal zone under seal of the Government of Panama is contained in amendments to tlio liquor smuggling treaty which was signed here by the Panama Secretary of Foreign Relations, Mr Enrique Grecnzier, and the United States Minister, Mr R. T. Davis, This is a step toward removing ono of the chief causes of misunderstanding resulting from the application of the Volstead Act in the canal zone, which bisects the wet Republic of Panama. The new articles provide that no penalty shall attach to carriage of liquors from one part of the Republic to another through the canal zone while under seal of the Panama Government, or to the ports of Panama and Colon when for export, The Volstead Act had sealed up the port of Colon for roshipment of liquors by sea to otter parts of the Republic on the Atlantic Coast,
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Evening Star, Issue 21080, 18 April 1932, Page 1
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