Show CANAL ZONE A new Panama canal safeguard has been in a trans-Isthmian highway the first such road ever built over which army machines can travel ocean-to-ocean in two hours At places the route is only a graded trail hacked through dense tropical but army trucks traversed it for the first time this demonstrating its availability in any emergency involving the vital canal and closely paralleling The highway adds a third and well separated route to the canal and which hitherto were the only avenues of heavy transport across the Isthmus of Begun in as a Joint Canal Zone and Republic of Panama the highway assumed enormous military significance after the United States and Panama entered the war it becomes the job of the Public Roads during Panama's to lay a two-way concrete highway before arrival of the that would speedily reduce this strategic highway to the Jungle from which it was so recently Granted a full quota of dry the job will be done in two John public roads engineer in charge of the |