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Show PAUI Ml LAiAL isuuS NOT Fill Panama Treaty Did Not Provide for Building of Fortifications New York, Sept. 10 Philllppe Bunau-Vurllla, who was one of the negotiators of the Panama treaty of 19u:5, in a statement glcn out In Paris and cabled to this country, denies that this instrument invested the United States with the right to fortify forti-fy the canal in he sense In which such fortifications arc advocated by Colonel Roosevelt. rUinuu-Varlllu declares that the fortification for-tification mentioned In the treaty were those of merely temporary character. Intended to protect the cxinal against a malefactor, filibuster, local Insurgents, aggression by bord erlng countries, and accidents of any kind that would endanger the waterway. |