CANAL CONTROVERSY.
LONDON, July 20. With, a view to heading off the attempts at a premature and perhaps a provocative disoussion of the Panama Canal question, Mr J. King, m the House of Commons, asked the Secretary of Foreign Affairs whether friendly representations were being made to the United States Government with the object of securing generous treatment for such British shipping 'as should pass through the canal. Sir Edward Grey, m reply, merely quoted article 111., of paragraph 1., of the Hay-Pauncefote Treaty, which sets forth that the canal shall "be free and open to vessels of commerce and of war.
WASHINGTON, July 20. ♦
Great Britain's formal protest against the Panama Canal Bill has reached the Senate.
Representative Moore has discovered what he believes, will be an effectual way to. meet the British objections. He has introduced a bill to neutralise the canal .and to give all. nations an opportunity to pay portion of the cost, which will approximately be, £65,000,000; and also portion of the annual maintenance, about £5,000,000. , Mr Moore, further proposes the organisation of a Panama Trade Commission to study the trade possibilities of the, Canal.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12826, 27 July 1912, Page 5
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