THE PANAMA CANAL.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XVIII, Issue XVIII, 4 September 1912, Page 7

THE PANAMA CANAL.

THE DEMAND FOR ARBITRATION

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(Received Sep. 4, 2 p.m.) NEW YORK, Sep. 3. President Taft is expected to postpone his decision on the British demand for arbitration on the Panama Canal question until Mr Knox returns from Japan. President Taft-'s friends admit an extremely delicate situation will arise if hi refuses to arbitrate; but, on the other hand, x>oint out that the United States can hardly be expected to submit the case to The Hague, where the interests of all nations will be opposed to those of America. President Taft caused it >» be understood that lie si sued the Canal Bill reluctantly, hoping that the work of creating the necessary legislative machinery would proceed, while leaving Congress to revise that part of the Rill about which Britain presses its demand. President Taft is understood to propose that the Arbitration Court be composed of British and American jurors.