PANAMA CANAL TOLLS.
BRITISH CASE CRITICISED.
FINE DISTINCTIONS, i
By Telegraph.—Press Association.— Washington, December 11. In some quarters it is considered that the British case in regard to the Panama Canal tolls is weakened by the fineness of the distinction between an acknowledgment of America's right to financially assist vessels using the canal and leaving other nations to do the same, and a vague assertion that other forms of subsidies are discriminatory.
The Tribune, which usually reflects the official view, says that Great Britain, in admitting the right to subsidise vessels, has retreated from the former contention that the exemption of tolls is an infraction of the Ilay-Pauncefote treaty. The New York Evening Post says that the only straight and manly course is to repeal the dubious and offensive clause, and thus escape a domestic blunder, otherwise arbitration is .the only possible course.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 15174, 13 December 1912, Page 7
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