PANAMA EXHIBITION.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XVIII, Issue 12120, 23 December 1913, Page 4

PANAMA EXHIBITION.

BRITAIN AND GERMANY HOLD ALOOF. (Times-Sydney Sun. Special Cables). [Bt ELECTRIC TeLEORAI'II CoPYRIGIIT.]

(Per Press Association.)

Received December 23, at 10.5 a.m." London. December '22.

The .American press is disgusted at Britain's refusal to participate in the Panama Exhibition. The general opinion is'that the GovSj-nnient'has bliiiidered badly, revealing an agreement with GTerniany iitit to participate. Germany would be an exhibitor ii'she were not bound to the .chariot wheels of British st'upidity. '- The . New York Herald it has beeii commonly' remarked recently thatGei'iitan diplomacy is' constantly outclassing the British,, and what shrewder move could be possible tlian to drive a wedge in to split Anglo-American friendship. S. There is a general impression that. Britain is acting Hi a spirit of petty revengef for tb'e Pitiarna Carial Aot'_ Berlin, December 22. The Times' correspondent controverts the view that Herr Panama Committees''■ dis.soiv.ed ' owing to the Kaiser's influence,- and suggests that the ground that Germany is pledged; not to exhibit does not obtain credence in Goi many. ' y