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Show uu ISLANDS IN I CANAL ZONE I Rich Pearl Fisheries Reported Inside Pan- j ama Coast Limit Panama.) March 8. An official sur- I vey is reported to have establishfld the fact that the Pacific islands of j) Tortola and Tortolita are a part of the Panama canal zone, being with-in with-in three miles of the coast limit. The finding is regarded here as im-portant. im-portant. as both of the islands have rich pearl fisheries. L H The United States government has just begun the erection of a large H wireless plant at the Pacific entrance of the canal. All records were broken during 1 1 February when 10S ships brought 6237 visitors to the canal. They have taken away so many of the Sttle sIL H ver coins of Panama for souvenirs that there is at present an unusual shortage of small change. H |