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Show Laborers- for Panama Canal. Paris. Leroy Parke, general agent of tho war department, has been In Europe Tor somo months soliciting foreign for-eign lnbor for work upon tho Panama canal, nnd nlthough ho has encountered encoun-tered much opposition, ho has succeeded succeed-ed sinco Octobor in shipping 4,500 men, nearly nil Spnnlnrds or Itallnns, and thoy are now going forward nt the rnto of about 500 n month. Notwlth-Btnndlng Notwlth-Btnndlng tho Inducements offered, both tho Spanish nnd Italian governments woro opposed to allowing their sub Jocts to go to Panama. |