Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 239, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1915 — GOETHALS KEEPS PANAMA POSITION [ARTICLE]

GOETHALS KEEPS PANAMA POSITION

Withdraws His Resignation As Governor of Canal Zone Because of ‘Recent Slides in Gaillard Cut. Panama, Oct. 6.—'Major General George P. Goethals has withdrawn his resignation as governor of the Panama canal zone. This fact was announced by General Goethals tonight on his arrival on board the steamer Cristobal from New York after a vacation spent in the United tates. His action was taken, he said, in view of the recent slides in the Gaillard cut, which have closed traffic through the canal. General Goethals said he would remain in Panama indefinitely—until such time as the condition of the canal would permit of his departure. Further than to make this announcement and to say that he had cabled Secretary of War Garrison withdrawing his resignation, General oGethals had nothing to say concernnig -he canal. He did not seem worried over the situation, but eager to enter upon the work of combating the slide. He will discuss the situation tomorrow with Lieut. Col. Chester Harding, engineer of maintenance, and afterwards make a personal study of the slides.