| Show i THE PANAMA CANAL NO NOw BECOMES INTERNATIONAL QUESTION QUESTIONS w S L I 1 L The hC ns n It I c i at r L i F Ff f 4 clip Gen T Warren Keifer who says ote agreement prohibits defense and President Taft who is actively planning to defend de end the canaL ENGLAND is WORRIED TAft IS FOR DEfENSE ow Treaty Involved After NtH Nin Years Y rs and Foreign Powers Pow Are Deeply Concerned o Hi M Washington Sept hilt lit Th fortification of the Panama mn enna It na 1 Z haa hu suddenly become me an tin interim lInnal question again after 1 nu jl dormant since nee he h part pact cot of lom I ho L LIn I In which it was all supposed to t h hi ha i been for all an time settled e Taft Tan Colonel CoI Dt Rn ROMr n it t and all an those who taw a th tt II Hn agreement m nt con 1 j il 1 ratified by the United States State anit an land agree with but at one 0 f tn n voice olee upon poa the interpretation of if r ira II 1 favorable to n the United total i It 11 t tone one on dissenting dl voice v la is tha that of f r 1 T F Warren Va Kilter Keifer K once onN speak kI k cr i f r t hO he heJl 9 House Jl of ot RepresentatIves Representative who h a 0 l I hot et me mf stab at at the th outset U ih t i f c United State tates at cannot fortify th I thama h IM Ia n nama ama canal without breaking brt k nl ir un ry obligations with Great art Britain vt Brussels I made mad this hi nt t hi fe feth th tho dl from j ir r i im mints menta m nt Ul powers My fy ailion opposing the t f r the tho canal received re general n ra 1 a PI I L ui i iTh The Th qu question Mon of the f r rth the th canal Inal has hall been brought up uj V tn liv M 01 t Roosevelt who In Mn his speech Ih m md n It t Omaha Neb Nob took tonk a stand nd that a ame me m for tor reasons which I will mill ilI tn ln HW IM when the an Ar or oranI f fa fa a anI new treaty between bet n the tho th Stats Stat and an Great G t Britain in the tho treaty if f t iso 1 lV n John Hay then Ulen secretary of stat OI It t n nl 1 Lord acting for fil i t Britain BrIta I drew w up a tit l submitted to the Setae na for tr 11 t i lIt a atlon athin thin by b Mr R It then j r nt tit ThIa treaty In 1 x xI It ItI I I primly pressly d the tilt fOlt t Ir Irth f the th ranaL cans It I t wa WI s i 1 h lv ip oi t I but the Ihl Untied m t tI I lit t it hy b t striking nUl ut It rtin it n fl 1 on to Page Inre Tn t ENGLAND ENGLAND IS I TAFT IS FOR DEFENSE I i Continued from Irom rae Pace One Oae cia ein e Great Creat Britain promptly repudiated tte l this Uta and a d the projected projected pro treaty tailed Relations of the two wo countries w Wore wre re thrown back upon th the or of th the treaty The Te treaty tr actually tny a In force foree is in I that of or November 1801 1181 drawn by Mr Hay Hayand awl and Lord which super ede th the treaty treat It forbids th the of he the th Panama canal in terms similar to those ho of Ut the Sues Sue Su canal treaty of or 1598 It wa was prevented presented for tor to the Senate by 1 Mr Irr Roosevelt himself who then must have haft approved its pro provision provisions visions vision papers have hare taken tAk up thin this Me side and maintain that the United States State cannot caRRO fortify On the other skies side Rule 1 I in is I cited to uphold hold the United SUttee States In this rule of or the th original treaty submitted by Mr Hay HAT It tt wa was prescribed that the canal Banal should bt be b free tree and open to in I time of war a as in time of peace to the of or all nation nations Words Arc Aro ro l I This Th led ted to a heated heat debate with the result that the words word in time of war an as in Urns time of or peace were omitted I with the that the United States State should have ba the th right to fortify the Ute canal and anti maintain It Its neutrality In support of or this Uti Lord Lansdowne the British foreign t fot ign secretary said on August Att 21 31 nIt 1911 nItI MI I understand that by the omission of or alt all reference to the matter of defense de defense rn the Ute United States State government desires dm to reserve r the power of taking measures to protect prot t the canal anal at nt any An rate when the United States Stat may mil milt be bee beat at t war from destruction or damage dama e at atthe atthe the th hands of or an enemy en my or enemies I Iam Im Iam am m not prepared to deny that contin contingencies contingencies may arise arbe an when not only from froma a national point of view but on behalf of or the commercial interest of or the whole world It might be of supreme importance to the United States Staten that they should hould be free r to adopt mea measures for tor the defense of the canal at I a mo moment momeRt meat ment when they were themselves en engaged engaged engaged in |
