PANAMA POSSIBILITIES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 64, 6 September 1911, Page 7

PANAMA POSSIBILITIES

) :: Ah'.' J annoiiiiconiriid .conies from , San I jl'l'a'n.clseq' 'th:fi;'th'e'' Hamburg-American j with a view of j , K<&.BfisMpjf ; iAr^ain : 'ileiw lines when the, jPaftAniaV't'aiiiil fS'b'ilehcd.' The report New York to I il > facilities at San j |Frfe!itt7sc6, au'd'of 'tin extension of the line ito J Ytfkoia'miL, It, is not at all clear what? (jK§ l prbgrsinmic , 'Jß, especially as all .shippiitg''betw'den' Xew York and* San lErancisw is.,jip\v,reserved to the Ameri!c'4ii',%g(V' ,l edastingj , ', i an,d the opening Wll'Wkc iia d[!ferpce in jtliat n'c%pcci' ! 'li r ;nj/S to that tile Ham-|burg-American' KiißT'pi'uposCs to run a ;serviee f to" the Far East, ;via Panama, mid another from the Plate land the Brazils? t-A Sin Francisco, ateo -by way of the canal. These are among j Ithe possibilities-of-the situation. It is' (clear that,the U.nited States has not . ( gat tile''s^:/-with'-which to open up itjie nevroutes.made feasible by the sunjder/ng of the jjstliniiis. , It must be dona iby-.'J?rft{gh-'i<jr ■{ft-niiitii vessels. The f^t J tlia¥-tUd , alive to the : iftHv'Wtua't'i'oH'giVes point to the prospective co-operation of "the Royal Mail, ; Pacific StcanTTifiKl'' Lamport and Holt I lines. All three, of, them are in the I South American 4 'trade, and two of them trade to West Coast porta as well as with the Brazils and til? Plate. The Lamport aifd'-Jfolt. •Ling J|mjft up, Xew I Y, r!; I'th South, and tire Royal ; Mail Lj■ilfeft . a t New York, a-s well as in jtllii West and Central America, | ifai both-.: of ; which the Panama Canal 1 sliouWi'idlririg- renewed life. Thus th'ese three lines are extraordinarily well placed for turning the Pacific coasts of North ami ,South America or communb cat'iou*. between.'the United States and the Far East. In a measure the completion of the Panama Canal will revolutionise the' World's steamship routes.