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Show AN ENDLESS MAZE OF WORDS. lha I amain t'annt Jioport Tlia Actual !oBtaes of Ihe VrojceU Pahis, April 20. The report on the Panama canal ha been sent to Ihe liquidator liq-uidator of tho comgiiny, . Monclieourt. by Lieutenant Wysu. who has been negotiating ne-gotiating with tho Colombian government govern-ment to prolong tho concession. The report is a voluminous document. It was apparently prepared with the object ob-ject of concealing, amid an endless mao of words and reiterated ixpress-ioiu ixpress-ioiu about sanguine prospects, tho ao-tticl ao-tticl hopelessness of ftlrther enterprise in that direction. After detailing the negotiations, Lieutenant Wyse concluded: con-cluded: "My success with Colombia is not to remain barreu, the hour has come for atrong resolution to take immediate; and energetic action to save tho capital invested in tho work and to prerve from destruction de-struction the vastest project of tho epoch. If underhand maneuvers, agaiust which it is time to arm, do not cause the pending financial combination to fail, the unfortunate -French public will soon receive, through the completion comple-tion of the canal, a greater part of the savings recklessly squandered." Proceeding to make practical suggestions, sug-gestions, Lieutenant Wyse advocates six locks, a single artificial lake in tho center, as the best schjme. Ho estimates esti-mates the time required to execute the work at five years, and the maximum cost six hundred million francs. |