AMBASSADOR EXPLAINS.
PRESIDENT SATISFIED. THE INCIDENT CLOSED. By Telegraph— Press Association— Washington, March 16. The explanation given by Mr. Walter Page (Ambassador to Britain) of his speech upon the Panama Canal tolls and the Monroe Doctrine is regarded by President Wilson as satisfactory, and the incident is now closed so far as the Administration is concerned. Mr. Wilson is satisfied that Mr. Page referred to the Manama Repeal Act as being introduced "not to please Britain," instead of "not merely to please Britain," as was originally reported. STORY OF MR. KIPLING. Mr. Kipling, the novelist, is receiving credit in Washington for having been the indirect cause of President Wilson's determination to bring about the repeal of the provision in the Panama Canal Act exempting American ■ coastwise vessels from the payment of tolls. According to the story which is going the rounds, Mr. Kipling so impressed Mr. W. H. Page by the contention that the free tolls provision was a violation of the HayPauncefote treaty that Mr. Page wrote to President Wilson and convinced him that' Mr. Kipling was right. The story, however, lacks confirmation.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15560, 18 March 1914, Page 7
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