THE RIVAL CANALS.
IMPROVEMENTS TO SUEZ. RATES TO BE REDUCED. 8y Telegraph.—Press Association.—CopyrigiH London, Thursday. At a meeting of the Suez Canal Company the president reported that the prospects were good. The competition from the Panama Canal would have only a i light effect, and the new waterway would probably prove supplementary rather than competitive. None the less, it would be necessary to reduce the Suez traffic charges to the same figure, as by the Panama route, and to undertake works to enable ships of larger tonnage to use Canal.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 678, 17 June 1914, Page 3
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90THE RIVAL CANALS. King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 678, 17 June 1914, Page 3
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