Show JAPAN FLIRTING WITH COLOMBIA ORIENTAL POWER RENEWS AT TEMPTS TO OBTAIN FOOTING ON WESTERN hemisphere negotiations of comparatively recent origin followed the failure of japan to make bargain with panama washington information was forthcoming from an authoritative source on sunday that japan has renewed her attempts to obtain a footing on the western hemisphere at the present mom tent it was stated on high authority japan Is negotiating with colombia for the purchase of a elto alto on her coast the these so negotiations are of com comparatively pars recent origin it Is said and follow the failure of japan to consummate ft similar bargain with the republic of panama japan approached panama according to the report through her ambas amba eador to spain who broached the subject last sur summer rimer to the panamanian Pana marlan marian minister at madrid antonio burgos the negotiations begun verbally finished with a four page document written in french setting forth the terms on which japan would make the purchase of an island from panama the document itself which Is said to bear the signature of the japanese ambassador at madrid Is now filed away in the archives of the state dopart department apartment part ment the island named in n the document Is colba situated in the pacific at a distance of more than miles from the coast of panama included in the otter offer made mad to panama for or the island it Is understood was a guarantee by japan that she would protect Pa pajamas panamas Panaro aa independence |