AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 6 April 1927, Page 2

AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

fAustralian & N.Z. Cablo Association.] ALTERNATIVE CANAL. WASHINGTON. April 4. V President Coolidge has ordered a new survey of the proposed alternative Panama Canal across Nicaragua. Military advises are inclined to favour the second route upon the theory that an enemy might easily cripple Panama, while Nicaraguan Canal could he kept open or vice versa. Hie President expects to discuss the matter in the next annual message to Congress in December. The last estimate of the Nicaraguan project, under instructions of Mr Harding, was two hundred million sterling. It would cost forty per cent of that amount to enlarge Panama sufficiently to handle traffic in the next twenty years, and still America wont', ho left without an alternative route. CHICAGO ELECTIONS. NEW YORK. April 4. Threats of violence between contending factions at the Chicago Mayoralty Election have resulted in extraordinary efforts to minimise the danger ol 'V an outbreak of open warfare to-mor-row. Several squads of police, each composed of thirty constables, have been ordered out to arrest all the known gangsters and underworld characters. following upon reports that those had “threatened to shoot lip the polls.” Rumours have furthermore been circulated that gunmen have been brought in from neighbouring cities, particularly from St. Louis, to alignment the forces of certain Ward lead- • , ers, who have planned to coerce voters. A.n altercation between one detective and a gunman resulted ill the shooting of the former dead. The attornies for arrested men, in every case immediately obtained writs of habeas corpus to secure their release.