THE PANAMA CANAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 92, 13 December 1912, Page 5

THE PANAMA CANAL.

BRITAIN’S CASE

(Per Press Association.) Washington, December 12

Some quarters regard the British ease as weakened by fineness in making a distinction between acknowledging America’s right to financially assist vessels using the Canal and leaving other nations to do the same, and the vague assertion that other forms of subsidising are discriminatory. The Tribune, which usually reflects the official view, says that Britain, in admitting the right to subsidise, has retreated from her former contention that exemption from tolls is an infraction of the Hay-Pauueefote Treaty. The New York Evening Post says that the nnlv straight and manly course is to repeal the dnVous and offensive clause and thus, escarp a domestic blunder. Otherwise arbitration is the nnlv course.