PANAMA EXHIBITION
NO BRITISH PARTICIPATION. By Telegraph— Press Association—Copyright (Received December 19, 3.30 p.m.) LONDON, December 19. The British Cabinet has decided against official participation in the San Francisco Exhibition on the ground of expense. GERMAN COMMITTEE DISSOLVED. BERLIN, December 18. Herr Ballin' states that the nonofficial committee set up to organise representation at the San Francisco ‘Exhibition will be dissolved owing to considerations of national tact, and the impossibility of organising without financial support. [Herr Ballin proposed a scheme for a German manufacturer’s exhibit at the San Francisco Exposition witho'ut Government aid, and it was reported that lie had secured unofficial Government support. The German Government, decided last week not to participate in the Exhibition on the grounds ‘‘that there is insufficient time to prepare a worthy exhibit, and owing to the danger to tho exhibit from earthquakes while traversing the Canal.”]
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8609, 20 December 1913, Page 5
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