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Show PANAMA CANAL FIGURES FOR YEAR PANAMA, July 17. During the fiscal year ended July 30, commercial ships passing through the Panama canal numbered num-bered 2031. These aggregated 6,013,000 net tons. The vessels carried 6,S00,000 tons of cargo. The ships were 4 per cent and their cargoes 10 per cent less than during the preceding fiscal year. Of the vessels passim? through the canal American vessels led with 791, British Brit-ish 601, Norwegians 128. French 104, Chilean Chil-ean 93, and Japanese 90. In addition to the commercial traffic, 1S5 naval and other government vessels passed through the waterway. The tolls were approximately $6. ISO, 000. |