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Show WILSON CHARGED WITH COWARDICE London, Jan. 29 The relations of the United States twith Great Britain in regard to the Panama canal tolls; the controversy between Washlngtou and Toklo over the California land ownership legislation and President Wilson's policy toward Mexico are the subjects of lengthy dispatches today to-day from British newspaper correspondents corre-spondents in Washington, but there is a singular lack of editorial comment com-ment on these questions. The Pall Mall Gazette Is the only newspaper to mention Mexico editorially. editor-ially. It says: "President Wilson has laid nim-self nim-self open to a charge of having chalked up 'no Huerta' and then run away. It is a position that becomes worse for the prestige of the Washington Wash-ington government every day on which nothing happens." The summons sent to Sir Lionel Carden, British minister to Mexico, to come to London for a conference has created no surprise here, as It was announced on January 5 that this would be the first step toward his transfer to Brazil. Tho six months for which he was appointed to Mexico Mex-ico expire In February. Thomas B. Hohler, as first secretary of legation in Mexico, will naturally act as charge d' affaires until tho successor of Sir Lionel Carden Is definitely appointed ap-pointed ' |