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Show A GREAT LANDSLIDE CLOSES UP THE Pli CANAL No Way to 'Stopping Earth Movement May Be'Open jy .WedMiday t - I 21- iZ ". Washington)1 tyovl ;2-Tho. Panama canat has been" closed toV-navlgntlon by another landslide.. Colonel Go- ethsils uopes to"bavo it open again- by Wednesday". Colonel Goothals cabled tho canal commission Into today "Rapid movement of slldo matorl. al In the break north of Gold Hill locked tho channel Saturday. Hopo to oren channel by Wednesday." As understood at tho canal office this slldo Is only an aftermath of tho big slide of October 14, when nearly three quarters of a million yards of earth and rock slowly sllppod from the hlllsldo down Into tho canal prism A channel was promptly cut through this material and In flvo days a considerable con-siderable fleet of vessels which had gathered at tho ends of tho canal vas passod through. Colonel Goothals has stated there Is no known way of stopping these landslides In Culcbra cut; that the engineers must content themselves with removing tho material as fast a9 It falls into tho canal until tho strata of earth and rock abovo have permanently adjusted thomsolvc3 to tlio chnngo In their baso caused by the digging of tho canal. This process pro-cess may go on for many months be-foro be-foro tho earth is finally and pcrma- ncntly quiescent. It Is believed, how-over, how-over, thnt navigation of tho canal will not bo BorloUBly Interrupted for ruoro than a few days at a tlmo. |