PANAMA CANAL
ALTERNATIVE ROUTE SURVEY ORDERED ACROSS NICARAGUA INCREASING TRAFFIC DEMANDS EXTENSION (By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright.) Washington, April 4. President Coolidge has ordered a new survey of the proposed alternative to Panama Canal across Nicaragua. The military advisers are inclined to favour a second route upon the theory that an enemy might easily cripple Panama while the Nicaraguan Canal could be 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 instructions from the late President Harding, was £200,000,000. It would cost 40 per cent, of that amount to enlarge Panama sufficiently to handle the traffic during the next 20 years and still America would be left without an alternative route. —A. and N.Z.
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Southland Times, Issue 20147, 6 April 1927, Page 5
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