American Annoyance.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 96, 23 December 1913, Page 5

American Annoyance.

THE PANAMA EXHIBITION.

MATTER OF PARTICIPATION. fP - - Elioteio telegraph—Copyright, Times—Sydney Sun Special Cables. (Received 8 a.m.) Loudon, December 22. The American press is disgusted with Britain's refusal to participate in the Panama Exhibition. The general opinion is that the Goveimment blundered badly in revealing an agreement with Germany not to participate, and that Germauy would be an exhibitor it' she were not bound to the chariot wheels of British stupidity.

"WEDGE TO SPLIT FRIENDSHIP.''

The New York Herald says: It has been commonly remarked recently that Gorman diplomacy is constantly outclassing the British. What shrewder move was possible, it asks, than to drive a wedge to split the AngloAmerican friendship? The general impression is that Britain is acting in .1 spirit of pretty revenge for the Panama Canal Act.

THE GERMAN VIEW. Berlin, December 22. The Times' correspondent controverts the view that Ballin's Panama committee was dissolved owing to the Kaiser's influence. The suggestion that England and Germany are pledged not to exhibit does not obtain credence in Germany.