STRAIT OF PANAMA PI.AN. NEW YORK. dan. 21. In a speech made before the Commercial C'luh of Cincinnati, Colonel Philippe Runau Varilla, one of the original promoters ol the Panama Canal, unfolded last night the details of his widely discussed project for the construction of a ‘’Strait of Panama.” His contention, made a few hours after the completion of the American naval manoeuvres, which have demonstrated the vulnerability of the existing canal, was that military and commercial interests of the United States required its immediate transformation from a lock canal into an open strait, I,oooft wide at the bottom and -lOlt deep at low tide. f’ol. Varilla estimates that the work will require the outlay of £200,000,000 which can he provided by the profits of the present canal without costing the taxpayer a penny.
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Hokitika Guardian, 11 March 1924, Page 3
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145Page 3 Advertisements Column 2 Hokitika Guardian, 11 March 1924, Page 3
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