PANAMA CANAL OPENED
. ATLANTIC TO. PACIFIC.-IN ELEVEN i HOURS. : . L By Telegraph—Pr.ess Association—Copyright ; ; ;,(Bcc. August 17, 0.5 a.m.) : ~-■■' New York, August, 15. 1 . Tho', 1 Panama, Canal was informally i opened by. the United States War Del partment's ship Aricon which made the , trip through; the canal, ex Atlantic to the Pacific", taking eleven hours for the passage. Colonel. Goethals, the builder of 1 the canal, 1 stood 011 the bridge as the vessel'left.- President Porras, ot Panama,- ' was besido him. Vessels drawing thirty ■ feet or-less may pass through the i Canal; "• '
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2230, 17 August 1914, Page 8
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92PANAMA CANAL OPENED Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2230, 17 August 1914, Page 8
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