PANAMA CANAL.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12817, 17 July 1912, Page 5

PANAMA CANAL.

(Press Assn.— By Telegraph.— Cbpyfigl&t.^ " MELBOURNE, July 16i. The Federal "Government has- con*municated with Britain, objecting;;^ the Panama Bill and any departure from the- H»y-Pauncefote treaty.^'"; : (Received July 17,- 8.45 o.miV ! .' LONDON, July 16;" The Times, commenting oh 'the rVfh sumption yesterday by th«""jUl>jt>64 iStatea Senate of consideration of .tbi - Panama Bill, ' stated that the. Jattefs fate would, be. doilbtfc^s largely, perhaps mainly, ' determined by aomesiro. considerations. Such were particularly active m. the year of, a Presidential "election, but "«even if proposals are- adopted; which we cannot regard as reswsonabjte and just we must resort to international arbitration." '■ .-- : -\

NEW YORK, July-Jfi;'.* Mr Elihu Root declares that the- di*crim^na,tion m, the Panama Bill is ail unjustifiable breach of faithi w*hich wiH abrogate the Hay-Pauncefote treaty*?o> the Hague tribunal, and probably conji pel a refund of tolhs.-^' It would be impossible to calculate . the . ; debt this intposed on the United is£ate& i; - : «V.