Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 8, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 May 1927 — Page 21

MAY 20, 1927

NICARAGUA CANAL , PROJECT LIKELY CONGRESS TOPIC Most Stupendous Human Undertaking Would Cost $1,000,000,000. By William Philip Simms, Scripps-Howard Foreign Editor WASHINGTON, May 20.—Digging of a second great inter-oceanic canal across Central America, to cost approximately a billion dollars, will almost .certainly be broached before the next Congress. This canal, far and away the greatest in the world, would be across southern Nicaragua along the San Juan River thence via Lake Nicaragua to an exit on the Pacific side in the neighborhood of Brito. The distance, Atlantic to Pacific, via this route, is 170 miles. Panama canal is forty-five miles long and cost $373,000,000. The Suez canal, about 100 miles long and connecting the Mediterranean with the Red Sea, cost $50,000,000. The Nicaraguan canal, therefore, would not only cost approximately triple the outlay at Panama and twelve times that at Suez, but would be four times as long as the former and almost double the length of the latter. It would be the most stupendous man-made undertaking of all time. | Keystone of Defense The need for such a canal has become increasingly obvious since the opening of the Panama canal in August, 1914. On that date the great waterway became the very keystone of the national defense. In September, 1915, occurred a great landslide which blocked the canal for six months. This sent a chill down the spines of Washington officials, charged with defending the country. What if, in time of international crisis, something should happen to Panama canal it was asked. It might easily spell disaster. Thus the idea of a secondary canal was given a boost and in 1916 negotiations, which had actually been under way for sixty years and the obpect of treaties for thirty years, were concluded with Nncaragua. For $3,000,000 the United States acquired a grant in perpetuity giv-

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