THE KIEL CANAL.
GERMAN FORTIFICATIONS
Received March 15, 8.24 a.m. BERLIN, March 14. Germany is strengthening the fortifications' of, Heligoland, and is establishing,a torpedo harbour there, with a view to protecting the Kiel Canal, and the mouths of the rivers Elbe and VVeser. (The small island of Heligoland, ceded a number of years ago by Britain to Germany, is the seaward outpost of the country at the mouths of the Weser and the Elbe. It is some sixty miles seaward of Brunsbuttel, at the mouth of the Elbe The North Sea and Baltic Canal,, which was constructed between 1887 and 1895, reaches from Brunsbuttel to Holtenau and Kiel, oh the Baltic Sea. It is sixty-one miies long, twenty-eight feet deep,' two hundred feet wide at the surface and eightyfive feet at the bottom. The sea voyage from the Elbe to Kiel represents nearly six hundred miles on a dangerous coast. The cost of the canal was about £8,000,000, and the yearly'maintenance is fully £50,000.)
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8382, 16 March 1907, Page 5
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164THE KIEL CANAL. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8382, 16 March 1907, Page 5
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