THE TSANA DAM
BRITAIN’S POSITION STATEMENT BY FOREIGN SECRETARY. (A & NX) LONDON, Nov. 8. Sir Austen Chamberlain informed a questioner in the House of Commons to-day that the Abyssinian Government had granted an American company a concession for the construction of a dam on the Blue Nile. At present • there was no official information on the subject. Such a concession would be a violation of the Anglo-Abyssinia Teaty of 1902, under which Abyssinia agreed not to allow a dam to be built without Britain’s consent. He was confident that Abyssinia was not unmindful of this obligation. Asked if the British and Americans were to fight over the matter, Sir Austen Chamberlain said that he thought this was a hypothetical question. He might, in the public inteest, state that no question had aisen between Britain and the United States, and he did not anticipate any Anglo-American difficulties.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19994, 10 November 1927, Page 7
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146THE TSANA DAM Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19994, 10 November 1927, Page 7
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