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Show MEXICO PUS HUT PERU'S ENDORSEMENT PANAMA, Dec. 21. The plan reached recently In Mexico for closer commercial union among the Latin-American Latin-American countries by intensive use of the Tehuantepec railway. Involving! competition with the Panama canal, f has no official standing in Peru at least, it was declared today by Dr. Francisco Tudelay Varela, the new' Peruvian ambassador to the United States who is here on his wav to take his post in Washington. "The canal represents so many advantages, ad-vantages, economic and political," said the ambassador, "that any official action ac-tion must favor the Panama route in every way possible. Already Peru has obtained great advantages from the canal and she is convinced that these will grow daily. "By lOOklnjr at tho crnotrrnnh!! eq uation of Peru it is easy to see that the canal affords a direct route for her to the eastrn United States and Europe Eu-rope and It Is unnecessary to analyze In detail the advantages of this over other routes." |