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Show First Ship Through Canal This Year NKW YORK. Jsn. ... An ocean going ship will phms from one ocean to tha other through the Puna ma -nal before the end of the vear 1913. This was the prom ! lhat Co). Oonie W. J.ethala. chief anpineer of the I'snams canal, -made at a dinner In his honor siven by the thlh t'nlvnrslty club last nlaht. "The queetlon of the completion of the canal." said Colonel Ooethala, "Is a uuestlon of the completion of the Cu lebra cut and the lovk gates. There waa enme delay In the matter of the gates, hut the contractors have assured me that the tiatun gates wilt b .ready by April 1 and thoee at Mlraflores by June of this year. This will enable us to admit the water. "If a ship Is to pass through the canal this year. Cu lebra must be flooded In the preaent wet season. I expect put a ship through In the latter part of nu." |