ABYSSINIAN DAM.
PROPOSED CONSTRUCTION. NO ISSUE WITH AMERICA. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, Feb. 9. In the House of Commons, the Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Mr G. T. Locker-Lampson, replying to a question regarding tiic construction of the dam and reservoir at Lake Tsana, Abyssinia, by American capital, recalled that the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Sir Austen Champerbain, had stated last November that no issue had arisen between the British and the United States Governments on this subject.
Mr Locker-Lampson said: “I do not conceive it possible that it should give rise to tiie occasion for any difference of opinion. There has therefore been no occasion for any exchange of views between the two Governments. The object of the British Government is to get the barrage constructed and worked on engineering lines, and ori conditions satisfactory alike to the Government of Abysinma and tbe Governments of the Sudan and of Egypt. Our primary interest is Lo secure additional water for the Sudan.”
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Waikato Times, Volume 103, Issue 17326, 11 February 1928, Page 7
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