Foreign Office and an American Contract London, Feb. 9.
Replying to a question in the House of Commons to-day regarding the construction of a drain and reservoir at Lake Tsana by American capital, Mr, Locker-Lampson recalled, that the Foreign Secretary had stated lust November that no issue had arisen between the British and United States Governments on this. subject.
"T do not conceive it possible", Me. Locker-Lampson added, "that should give rise to any difference of opinion, There has, therefore, been no occasion for any exchange of views between the two Govern~ ments, The object of the British Government is to get a barrage con structed and to work on sound engineering lines and conditions satisfactory alike to the Government of Abyssinia and the Government of the Sudan and Egypt, our primary interest being to secure additional water for the Sudan.—Reuter.
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