CANAL PROJECT FAILS
Don-Volga Scheme Spoilt By Wreckers (Eeceived 24, 11.30 a.m.) MOSGOW, July 23. The journal Water Transport discloses ;hat after four years' work and the expCiiditure of 15,000,000 roubles^ plans for the Don-Volga canal must be abandoned and work cominenced ftll over again. The journal blames wreckers for the failure o.f the prei minary work. The eanal, 372 miles long, was intended to irrigate ten million acres and link the Blaek Sea with the Baltic, to counteract evaporation of the Caspian Sea by divcrting Don water to the ,i Volga,
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 160, 24 July 1937, Page 5
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