GREAT CANAL
WORK OF FIFTY YEARS IN GERMANY NETWORK OF WATERWAYS LINKED. EXPENDITURE OF £50.000,000. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. • BERLIN. October 31. Herr Rudolf Hess, deputising for Herr Hitler, opened the Midland canal, which cost £50,000,000. It is 300 miles long and is equipped with a great ship hoist, enabling vessels to leavq Magdeburg for Berlin or Silesia or the mouth of the Rhine. Its construction took fifty years. It joins a network of waterways extending 7900 miles from east to westward. The completion of the Rhine and the main Danube canal in 1943 will unite the system with the Black Sea. The Elbe already joins the Midland canal. Czechoslovakia traffic is . expected to be 25,000,000 metric tons yearly.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 November 1938, Page 5
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118GREAT CANAL Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 November 1938, Page 5
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