NICARAGUAN CANAL.
AMERICAN SURVEY BEGINS. (BX cablx —P»*S3 ASSOCUTIOJT-COPIMOB®) (Smidt "Sc*" SBRYICi.) WASHINGTON, April 4. President Coolidge has ordered a new survey of the proposed alternative to the Panama Canal across Nicaragua. i The military advisers are, inclined to favour the second route, upon, the theory • that an enemy might easily cripple the Panama Canal, while a Nicaraguan Canal could be kept opeiif , v or vice versa. t \ The President expects to discuss the matter in his next annual message to Congress in December. Tho last, estimate of the Nicaraguan project, made under the instructions, of the late President Harding, was £200,000,000. It would cost 40 percent, of that amount to enlarge Panama sufficiently to handle the traffic in the next 20 years, and still America would be left without an alternative Mute.
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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18969, 6 April 1927, Page 11
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