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Show JAPAN FLIRTING7 WITHG0L0MBU ORIENTAL POWER RENEWS AT. TEMPTS TO OBTAIN FOOTING ! ON WESTERN HEMISPHERE. Negotiations of Comparatively Rt. cent Origin Followed the Failure of Japan to Make Bargain With Panama. Washington. Information wa forthcoming from an authoritative source on Sunday that Japan has renewed re-newed her attempts to obtain a foot, ing on the western hemisphere. At the present momlent, it was stated stat-ed on high authority, Japan is negotiating nego-tiating with Colomibia for the pur. chase of a site on her coast. These negotiations are of comparatively compara-tively recent origin, it is said. ac! follow the failure of Japan to consum-mate consum-mate a similar bargain with the republic re-public of Panama. Japan approached Panama, acconi-ing acconi-ing to the report, through her amba?. sador to Spain, who broached the sub-ject sub-ject last summer to the Panamariaa minister at Madrid, Antonio Burgos The negotiations, begun verbally, finished fin-ished with-a four-page document, writ ten in French, setting forth the terra; on which Japan would make the p:r chase of an island from Panama. The document itself, which Is sa:i to Ibear the signature of the Japane-ambassador Japane-ambassador at Madrid, is now 5M away in the archives of the state i-partment i-partment The island named In the docuaert is Coiba, situated in the Pacific at a distance of more than 200 miles from the coast of Panama. Included in the offer made to Panama Pan-ama for the island, it is understood was a guarantee by Japan that sse would protect Panama's independent. |