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Show MEASURING THE GERMAN SHIPS Vessels May Be Placed on the Panama Canal Freight Route. Washington, Aug. 24. Application was made today to the bureau of navigation navi-gation of the department of commerce for the measurement of North German Ger-man Lloyd and Hamburg-American line ships now held In Hawaiian ports by the war. The measurement was requested to qualify the ships for using us-ing the Panama canal. The request was forwarded by the collector of customs at Honolulu, with a letter from the agents of the steamship steam-ship lines setting forth that the surveyor sur-veyor of the port of boston had already al-ready measured the Hamburg-American liners Amerika and Cincinnati. There are three Hamburg-American and four North German Lloyd ships now at Honolulu. nn |