Show JAPAN FURT I 1 I 1 U WITH COLOMBIA ORIENTAL POWER RENEWS ATTEMPTS TO OBTAIN FOOTING ON WESTERN hemisphere negotiations of comparatively recent origin followed the failure of japan to make bargain with panama washington information was I 1 forthcoming from an authoritative source on sunday that japan has renewed I 1 her attempts ito obtain a footing on an the western hemisphere at the present moin tut it was stated on high authority japan Is negotiating with colombia tor for tho the purchase ot of a site on her coast these negotiations are of campara dively recent origin it Is said and follow the failure of japan to consummate a similar bargain with the republic of panama japan approached panama Pai iam according to the report through her ambassador to spain who broached the subject last sur nimer to the panamanian Pana marian minister at madrid antonio burgos the negotiations begun verbally finished with a four foun page document writ ten in french setting forth the terms on which japan would make the purchase ot of an island from panama the document itself which Is said to bear the signature ol of the japanese ambassador at madrid Is now filed away in the archives of the state department part ment the island named la in the document Is collia situated in the pacific at a distance of more than miles from the coast of panama included in the offer made to panama for the island it Is understood was a guarantee by japan that she would protect panamas pajamas Pa independence |