PANAMA TOLLS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXV, Issue 16485, 26 February 1914, Page 7

PANAMA TOLLS.

HAY-PAUNCEFOTE TREATY.

EX-AMBASSADOR'S VIEW.

By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright.

WASHINGTON, February 24.

' According to Mr Henry White, exAmbassador to Great Britain, 'the American negotiators of the Hay-Paunce-fots treaty never thought that the United States even wished for exemption from tolls.

Mr White, while in London, opened the Hay-Pauncefote negotiations during Mr Hay's temporary absence.

Mr White declares that it would be a deplorable thing if the United States now repudiated its own treaty.