THE PANAMA CANAL.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10408, 23 July 1912, Page 5

THE PANAMA CANAL.

United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. Received Jal? 33, 9 a.m. Washington,’ July 33.

A point has been raised against the preferential Solis that I.'it is anreasonable to suppose that Britain would have marit- important concessions to the United States in regard to the ownership and even the fortification of the Canal zone without quid pro quo and without the latter naturally there would be equal treatment. Summarising the opinion of the press from east to west it is that arbitration is the commonest suggestion. The British protest is received sympathetically. The whole business practically is due to manoeuvring the shipping subsidy clique. The same arguments lie against the differential tails as hitherto the defeated cliques made efforts to obtain subventions.