TOPICAL READING.
FORTIFYING THE PANAMA CANAL.
The effects which the completion of the Panama Cana! will have on British strategic policy, not only in the Atlantic but also in the Pacific, have repeatedly been v referred to. It is asserted that not a little of the changes which are being slowly made with regard to the strengthening of British forces east of Suez and in the Pacific are due to that. Accounts to hand show that, unlike the Suez Canal, the Panama Canal is to be strongly fortified at both ends. The Panama, or Pacific end will be guarded [fay a chain of forts on three islands which lie conveniently, and a very strong fort will dominate it from the mainland. These forts are to be armed with batteries of 12in. and 14in. guns, sin. quick-firers, and smaller weapons, and the Atlantic end is to be protected by forts mounting similar weapons, one on each side of the embouchere* ~„.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10072, 18 June 1910, Page 4
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159TOPICAL READING. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10072, 18 June 1910, Page 4
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