JAPANESE CONCESSION.

North Otago Times, Volume CIV, Issue 13656, 26 August 1916, Page 3

JAPANESE CONCESSION.

ON THE AMERICAN COAST. ALLEGATIONS -AGAINST PfiLSIDEN.T OF PANAMA. (Per Cable—Press Association—Copyright,) (Australia!) and N.SS. CnWe Associntion.) ' WASHINGTON, August Si. Jlr Lansing (Secretary of State) lias announced that investigations are proceeding into the charges against,Seiior Vahlez, President of the Panama Republic It is alleged that he was instrumental in securing a oO.UUO-acri 1 land cuiirMsion for the agents! of Japanese silk linns. The land is located on the Atlantic seaboard (opposite San Miguel P>av, on the Pacific seaboard south-east of the canal zone), and might lie ;iviiil;ib)i> for'a iiiival base.