NILE DAM.
QUESTION IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. VIOLATION OF TREATY. LONDON, November 8. In the’ House of Commons, the Foreign Secretary, Sir Austen Chamberlain informed a questioner that he bad received reports stating that the Abyssinian Government had granted an American company a coneession for the construction of a dam on the Blue Nile. A t present thefe was no official information on the subject. Such a concession would <be a violation of the Anglo-Abyssinian Treaty of 1902, under which Abyssinia agreed not to allow a dam to be built without Britain’s consent. He was confident that Abyssinia would not be unmindful of this obligation. Asked if British and Americans were to fight over the matter, Sir Austen Chamberlain said that he thought this a hypothetical question. He might, in the public interest, state that no question had arisen between Britain and the United States, and he did not anticipate any Anglo-Ameri-can difficulties.—(A.P.A. and “Sun.”)
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Wairarapa Age, 10 November 1927, Page 3
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