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Show I LITTLE NATIONSARET I WARNED' HUGHhS f!B CE38ATION OF HOSTILITIES DE- IS MANDED IN FIRST ACTION BY NEW GOVERNMENT. Suggestion of Mediation U Conveyed II to Panama and Costa Rica MR In Warning Issued by Up Secretary of State. R Washington. Cessation of hostlll- Iff tics between Costa Illcu mid I'luuiiuu im Is dcmnmletl In notes which. It woh Urn1 learned nt the stato department, liml RK been dlHpiitclicd on March li to the IHjj governments of those two countries by Ira; Charles 1'. Hughes, new secretary ot UK state. BE', This action was the first of the BEj Harding administration In the realm Bj; of foreign affairs -and wits said to HB havo been based on the ground of ifly broad expediency, as the dlsputu be- HV tween the Central American republics fHj Involved American Inturcsts In tlio V l'ananmn canal zone. Blj A peaceful solution of the dispute V' over Goto on tlio basis of tbo White ' award is understood to lmvo been hub- WM Rested. Tlio notes did not suggest , mediation by tlio United States, but HK wero understood to lmvo conveyed tlio B Impression that this country stood H ready to enforce, If necessary, a peace- UH ful solution. BK Dispatch of tlio notes followed con- V forunces between President Harding, BV Secretary Hughes and John W. Weeks S1'- mid Edwin Denby, now socrotnrlen of HB war and navy.t Sir, Hughes took up BB tlio subject of tlio disputo with Under- BB secretary Davis Immediately after his BE Induction Into offlco and Inter spent BB nearly two hours with Mr. Harding. Bft Secretary Weeks was called In soon MB after tlio conferonco began and pro- HK Acutod Intcst dlspatchos from the RHj canal zono. Mr, Denby discussed tlio tM question later with tlio president Bflj Replies; from L'nnnnia and Costa BB Rica to tlio notes dispatched several BB days ago by former Sccrotnry Colby BB wero received Sunday. That from BB l'nnama was said to havo oxprcsscd a BB. willingness to accept tlio offer of tlio BB United States In attempting to sottlo BB tlio dispute, but tlio ono from Costa BB Illca vns described as unsatisfactory. BB It Was said that tlio Amorlcan gov- BB eminent had no official Information BB- that clthor I'nnnma or Costa Rica In- BB tended to submit tlio dispute to tlio BV lunguo of uatlonB, as reported In press BB dispatches, Saturday's action ot tlio BB etato department, It was added, was BB' taken Without rofcrenco to such re- BB ports! |