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Show PANAMA CANAL MAY PROVE TO BE USELESS LONDON, July 29, 11:45 p. m. Discussing Dis-cussing the probable fate of the Panama canal, in an interview in the Weekly Dispatch, Colonel Norton Griffiths, M. P., and a well-known engineer, says: "We await further developments with sympathetic interest before accepting ominous reports that the present canal is doomed. If the subsoil underlying Gaillard cut is a gigantic bog, as some alarmists assert, then this particular route seems hopeless. "No dredging in the world will relieve re-lieve the situation, for always, as now, there will be more earth to remove, and it will be a case of dredging forever with no positive result. Until we know whether or not the reports are true, it would be premature to pass judgment." |