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Show H PANAMA CANAL SHOWS j GOOD PROFIT FOR YEAR WASHINGTON. Nov. 23 The Panama H canal has closed ilu- bfBt yHr financially H In Its bIt years of oierutlon with an ex H eras of 13. .1ST, 599 In revenue over the ex- enae of operation und maintenance I a it i r Cenernl ('heater liar. line. H governor of the I'anama canal, rredlcted H In lila annual report to the secretary of 1 reasonable period of normni world con- H dltlona. the cnnsl will earn an actual1 H profit on it roat, wM-h has been J30V- 19 I II tar) and m. . ns the mean- H Ttrne. the irera1 tidd-'l trifl'ciWIT fs fJCr- H forming an Important , onime .-rial service H I tlmulat ing American trade with the i l orient. More 'Jiati 2.". rr rent of the cargo hatrlleil through the canal ainre I Ita openlna w In transit between the I'nited States an.l South America. and jilt, ),er i'pri was between the Atlantic 1 coast of the lnltel States and the Orient Ori-ent Within the six years of operation. General Gen-eral Harding's report said, there has t.een a marked Increase In traffic , through the canal, notwithstanding the f.v t that the World war Interfered with the normal development of ocean-golnc commerce, Aftrr the entry of the ("nlt-ed ("nlt-ed Stales Into the war there was a de-rvie de-rvie In commercial traffic, due to the. diversion of certain !lnc; of fhipa to J trans-A'lnntlc ser Ice. hut this was more than offset by the Increase In traffic traf-fic grr.wlng out of the war. chiefly on account of the development of the nitrate' trade with the Pacific conn of South I America, |