Kiel and the Canal
Kiel, over which British ’planes flew recently to bomb the docks and the Ger= man cruiser Scharnhorst, lies at the head of a bay on the Baltic. It has great ship-
building yards, slips and wet and dry docks, and is the beginning of the canal which connects the North Sea with the Baltic, Before the outbreak of the last war Kiel was the headquarters of the German Baltic Fleet and the opening of the canal to ships of war greatly increased the strategic value of the German Grand Fleet. The original Kiel Canal was opened in 1785, but in those days ships of only 120 tons could pass through it, In 1887 the canal was enlarged and extended to Brunsbuttel, at the mouth of the, River Elbe. Then, in 1908, the depth of the canal was again increased, this time to allow the passage of battle cruisers, but it was not finished until after the outbreak of the last war, at a cost of £11,000,000. The canal is strongly defended, both at Kiel on the Baltic and at Brunsbuttel on the North Sea, where there is another naval base,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 56, 19 July 1940, Page 2
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194Kiel and the Canal New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 56, 19 July 1940, Page 2
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