LATE CABLES.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 35, 18 March 1914, Page 10

LATE CABLES.

PANAMA CANAL. BRITAIN AND AMERICA. A WARNING. By Cable.—Press Association.—-Copyright. (Received March 18> 1.40 p.m.) WASHINGTON, March 17. Mr Kahn warned the House of Representatives during the consideration of the Sims Bill that Britain would not yield if she found herself in a similar position to that confronting the United States. The greatest of the world's republics had become in one year of democratic rule a pariah amongst the nations, and no people on earth would be willing to sell their birthright for a mess of such unpalatable pottage. Sir Edward Grey was entirely mistaken when he stated that the system of rebates granted to Canadian shippers in violation of the Washington Treaty had been abandoned owiug to the United States' protest. If they granted the present demands, Britain's next demand would be for _ the abandonment -of the fortification provisions at ithe canal. *