A Great Protest Against Us Urged.

New York Times 100 years ago today, September 4, 1912:
German Jurist Suggests Joint Action by International Law Authorities of World.
NO BRITISH DEMAND AS YET
But Reference of Canal Dispute to Hague Is Likely to be Requested Later — Punch's Hit at Mr. Taft.
Special Cable to The New York Times.
    BERLIN, Sept. 3.— A great protest against what is termed America's violation of the Hay-Pauncefote treaty to be made by leading authorities on international law throughout the world, is proposed by Prof. Wilhelm Kauffmann, the distinguished jurist who occupies the chair of international law at the University of Berlin.
    In an article in to-day's Berliner Tageblatt Prof. Kauffmann says:
    "It is to the most urgent interest of all seafaring nations that international law experts from all parts of the civilized world should unite in declaring emphatically that the new Panama Canal act is contrary to the provisions of the Hay-Pauncefote treaty as well as to the treaty of 1903 between the United States and the Republic of Panama, and that from the standpoint of international right the act is intolerable."
    After traversing the various points on which the passage of the canal law was based, Prof. Kauffmann adds that the arguments of the United States are also untenable judged from the standpoint of the law of nations, and that exhaustive discussion of them is hardly worth while. President Taft's "post-mortem arguments" are equally fallacious, in Prof. Kauffmann's opinion, and are not calculated to justify the legality of the American procedure.
    The Berliner Neueste Nachrichten bemoans the probability that Europe will be "unable to unite for common action against America, as it ought to do," in connection with the Panama incident, and ventures the opinion that the American Government is exploiting this state of affairs to the full.