Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1901 — CLEARS THE WAY FOR CANAL [ARTICLE]

CLEARS THE WAY FOR CANAL

Nicaragua Cancels Concessions and Abrogates Old Treaty. Nicaragua has cleared the way for the United States to dig the isthmian canal by revoking, forfeiting or canceling all concessions to all persons or governments that could iu any way clash with the interests of the United States. In decreeing that he would abrogate the “Treaty of amnesty in perpetuo,” commonly known as the “Dickinson-Ayon treaty of 1867,” President Zelaya is voluntarily renouncing the guarantee of sovereignty over the canal and leaving the way clear for its cession to the United States.

La Democracia, the semi-official daily paper of Managua, declares that treaty is to be abrogated because Nicaragua has cleared the canal route across her territory of all obligations to other persons and governments.