Mt. Pleasant Pyramid | 1915-01-08 | Page 2 | Canal Guns Satisfactory

CANAL GUNS SATISFACTORY. Panama Fortificatiomj Are Sufficient, According to Colonel Goethalsi Washington. The fortifications of the PtRiama canal were described as satisfactory by Colonel Goethals, governor gov-ernor of the Panama zone, before the house naval committee on Tuesday. Colonel Goethals told how the great guns mounted at the entrances to the waterway measured up to the heaviest weapons that could be brought to bear by any foreign war craft afloat, of carefully planned mine fields and of mammoth searchlights capable of sweeping the entire range of gunfire.