IMPORTANCE OF CONSTANZA.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1630, 28 October 1916, Page 2

IMPORTANCE OF CONSTANZA.

THERE is only one important railway line through the Dohrndja, that from Bucharest to Constan/a. The Dohrndja portion of the line, between Tchernavoda and C'onslanza, was huiit by tin English coinpitny in LStiO, and acquired hy the Roumanian Oovernment in .1882. The Danube is crossed hy means of a bridge 111 miles long, between Eateshli ami Tchernavoda. The structure consists of tin iron bridge about 1,(100 yards in length over the Borteha arm, of a dam with several viadaets eight miles long ami -18 feel high over the marshy land, and of a second bridge, about, mu' mile long, over the main Danube .arm at Tehernavoda. The most import tint, port is Conslanza, to the development of which much attention has been devoted. The town has also it. great military value because it forms with Mangaiia the only point, where a safe binding can he made, and because its possession decides the fate of the powerful defensive line improperly called Ihe “wall of drajan.” This work occupies the depression along which rims the railway line from Tehenmvoda to ('oustamm, and consists of a complex system of three 1 lint's of entrenchments, studded throughout its whole length with lortihed camps. Const a nza, moreover, is on the shortest route from the Danube to the sett, and is free from ice in the winter. Second in importance for navigation is Snliita, at the month of the Snliim arm, a free port within (he Jurisdiction of the European Danube Commission. The other towns, Mangalia, Tntcha, Rent —jit the continence of tin* Prnth — isneleha —I ho best connection between Bessarabia and Dohrudja— Silis.lria, etc., tire only of secondary importance.