A NEW CANAL
ALTERNATIVE TO PANAMA
WASHINGTON April 4
President Coolidge has ordered a new survey of the proposed alternative to the Panama Canal across Nicaragua. Military advisers are inclined to favor the second route upon the theory that an enemy might easily cripple Panama, while the Nicaraguan Canal could lie kept open, or vice versa. The President expects to discuss the matter in his next annual message to Congress in December. The last estimate of the Nicaraguan project, under the instructions of President Harding, was £200,000,000. It would cost 40 per cent, of that amount to enlarge the_ Panama Canal sufficiently to handle the traffic of the next twenty years, and still America would he left without an alternative route.—A. and N.Z.C.A.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXV, Issue 10376, 6 April 1927, Page 5
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123A NEW CANAL Gisborne Times, Volume LXV, Issue 10376, 6 April 1927, Page 5
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