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Show Action of Senate on Canal Treaty Causes 111 Feeling. Vancouver. B C, Aug. 9 British Columbia may decline to participate In tho Punaina-Pacific exposition and the "flying legion" of fifty prominent San FranclBCO men who are duo here August 28 to conduct a "booming campaign" cam-paign" for the big fair may receive a cool greeting A. B. Erskine, president of the board of trade when shown a dispatch from London to the effect that Great Brit; ain might refuse her support for the fair, said today: "A special meeting of the board of trade will be called to discuss tho question whether the people of this city and the province should not withdraw with-draw from any active or official participation par-ticipation in the forthcoming Panama-Pacific Panama-Pacific exposition to be held in San Francisco in 1915. I see that tho British government is considering a similar course and I am convinced that It is the only dignified thing to do in view of tho action of tbo majority ma-jority of the United States senate In repudiating its treat obligations. |