PANAMA CANAL DUFS.

West Coast Times, 28 January 1914, Page 3

PANAMA CANAL DUFS.

PRESIDENT WILSON’S POLICY,

IN FAVOUR OF ARBITRATION

{PER PRESS ASSOCIATION. —COPYRIGHT.]

WASHINGTON, Jan. 27

President Wilson conferred with the Foreign Delations -Committee on the questions of .the Panama tolls and the Japanese land controversy. It is stated that no critical situation has arisen in either question, but the President wished to endeavour to test the Committee’s opinion of the various pending important questions. He hoped Air. Bryan’s peace treaties would soon be ratified. The Japanese question was still open to negotiation. . It is reported that President Wilson expressed a desire to see a general arbitration treaty with Britain ratified first and afterwards he hoped Mr. Adamson’s resolution, now pending in the House, would be carried, thus suspending the Operation of the free tolls for two years.

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