Show T TI W WI I ISTHMIAN T MI r POLiCY liL Xo No State of War Exists and No o Inauguration of Hostilities II Ics Is s Contemplated pl a teti NOT hOT EVEN PREPARING FOR WAR I President Docs Joes Not ot Believe Any Occasion for Using Troops on Isthmus Will Ill Arise irise Washington Jan Jami 12 Shortly after aftertime the time cabinet meeting today toda Secy B c Hoot Root Issued d the th statement Ing lug the time Isthmian II II C of or ho lie adminis administration publication In various quarters of oC news neils Indicating Unit that time the government la Is l preparing to send sCUll troops to the tho mus to carry on military II operations against Colombia has hns been heen the source of wn ll annoyance to 10 the time exec olive and to t time the III war department Xo No state stute of at war wal exists between thu two countries no nil Inauguration of hostilities hostilities ties Is itt contemplated by 11 this govern government ment no for war Is IR being made It Jt Is IR not nol believed by b time the prent president dent nor lor by IJ the secretary of or state that any ally occasion for tor time the employment of If troops Oil on tho the Isthmus IH is II likely to arise They Timey have used their utmost efforts to tu convince len den amid the Bogota authorities of the lie friendly Intentions of this tl l government toward 1 Colombia mid tutu of mf their theft readiness i H to Use tote their th lr good In the time of any amm quest quei lout III In dispute between Colombia and Panama 11 I Is 18 for them to believe that hint the tue In lii Bogota mil call bo be boco beso co so blinded by b passion and amid prejudice ns ni nito s sto to declare war t li u us even If IC this ruinous step Atell should be by II i Colombia thus this government would IK be II In III no haste to respond re to tn her challenge l Tile MIll president all nil pos POll possible Bible sible for fur thin tho natural excite cx In III over ncr a It state of at things for Cor which time the Colombian lan government In it and amid of ot which It was wan fully full arned Hut But they timey the mu must t soon son sooner sooner er Ir or Inter later recognize time the force forc of facts anti and the tho sooner this thin IH is done time tho better for nil Ill It A have ilono Iono them no ito wrong we 1 would like Ilka to be lie of service to them If It they wo arc wise they the will not put It out of lr our OUt power Ioel to tu belli them by imy any uny In Hot act of IJ rashness and violence 10 |