GERMAN WATERWAY.
COMPLETION AFTER 50 YEARS. MIDLAND CANAL OPENED. (United Press Association—Copyright.) BERLIN, October 31. Herr 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 leave Magdeburg, in Saxony, for Berlin or Silesia or the mouth, of tlio Rhine. The construction of the canal took 50 years. It • joins the network of waterways extending over 7000 miles from east to west. The completion of the Rhine-main-Danube Canal in 1943 will unite the system with the Black Sea. The Elbe already joins the Midland Canal. Czechoslovakian traffic alone is expected to amount to 25,000,000 metric tons a year.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/AG19381101.2.37
Bibliographic details
Ashburton Guardian, Volume 59, Issue 18, 1 November 1938, Page 5
Word Count
116GERMAN WATERWAY. Ashburton Guardian, Volume 59, Issue 18, 1 November 1938, Page 5
Using This Item
Ashburton Guardian Ltd is the copyright owner for the Ashburton Guardian. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Ashburton Guardian Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.