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Show SEA LEVEL CANAL AT PANAMA URGED WAfll.INOTO.V, Jan. 11.--Toi.Mnif.-tion of a sa level canal to paraltal the I'unarra waterway waa advocated yesterday by Be c ret at y leaker. Within fifteen ycara, ha wM, the Tanama canal would ba inaUequttta to handle eoiTimerc between the Atlantic and Pacific occafls. "Commercial reasons primarily and military considerations In a. less degree) de-gree) Indicate wo a hot i til begin preparing pre-paring t build another canal." ha said. "it should ba built either through Panama at lha point once cotisiuered ua a site for thr present canal, or through Nicaragua A Huageauwii made to I'rasldant-oloot I'rasldant-oloot Harding; that tha Panama canal be chniuced to a aea level waterway prompted Mr. Rakers statement. He did not favor such a project, ha aaid, believing; that tho money should be applied to tha construction of ft new can "1 have not Riven great consideration considera-tion to tho military considerations Involved.' ba added, "wind do not know what the navy department's plun aa to the size of future battleship!, but it Is conceivable our next dreadnoughts dread-noughts may be of too great beam lo puss throt-gh the present canal." |