Show Panama Canal Has Has' Nothing to Fear From Enemy Enemy's s 's Fleet Vessels at Sea Unable t to D Determine Location of Gatun Locks Intervening Intervening Intervening Inter Inter- Hills Would Also Prevent Bombardment Bombardment From Prom Sea WASHINGTON ON o Oct 30 Secret te tests t r recently enJI made mado by the third di divisIon division vision of the bat battleship fleet under command of Rear Bear Admiral Usher are Me said to have havo disclosed tho the fact that the Panama canal virtually has nothing noth ing to fear feat fr from m t tho o firo of an enemy enemy's fleet so 80 far ar as the Gatun and other Important locks loeks are concerned This information leaked from irom the tho navy department de today tody The tests started darted last winter are do do- dared to hn have ve developed develop d the tho fact that the fleet flet could not determine tho the location location lo- lo cation of the Gat Gatun n locks lock It also alia is intimated that tho the data mado made public and supposed to give e the topography of the canal canaI al purposely w was inac inaccurate In addition it was wa discovered that tho tho hills intervening rendered the locks look almost almost almost al al- most immune from froth damage by bombardment bombardment bombard bombard- ment meat from sea An ext extension of the br breakwater on the Atlantic side rido has 85 made ade it possible pos to mount long Jong range guns gins so eo far ar out that the approach of an enemy's fleet could readily be checked Elaborate plans also aho for tho the mining of the approaches approaches approaches ap ap- ap- ap of the canal on ou both the Atlantic Atlantic At At- lantic and Pacific aides already have been co completed d. d |