BIGGEST ISLAND IN THE WORLD.

Bruce Herald, Volume XXXXI, Issue 50, 27 June 1905, Page 2

BIGGEST ISLAND IN THE WORLD.

Europe may become an island. How ? Why, in a very simple way after all, by just making it one. ' / ; The flusriari Government is going to do' J this by constructing -a waterway from. the ! Balticto the Black Sea, and if an island is only 'land entirely surrounded by water,' what else will "Europe be then ? The rivers Dnieper and Dwina are to be connected by a canal, and lo ! the whole thing is done. : '.; ... •■ V. ■._■/. -..;.■■ ■■/'.••• ..■ / ■- ...;'/ '■ :.- : -'■'■ Any one. thinking.for a moment can easily gee why such a . waterway would/, be 61 enormous value to Russia. The only route no wr by which a war ship, for instance, can get from St. Petersburg to Odessa or Sebastopol is by: way of .the British Channel, the Straits of tJibraltar and the Mediterranean Sea V;' ■■ ■■;' ':: r-y //:- ":~:,,y : /-'- '■'■■?*■*': Afterthe ship gets that far it meets with impediments in "the /way of international treaties, which prevent it crossing the Dardanelles. So that Russia ha 3 had to build, at vast . expense; /storehouses, docks, shipyards and naval arsenals both at Sebaetopol and then again at ■ Cronftadt, at the mouth of the Neva. No wonder it is . willing and * anxions - to undertake- the great canal. It will be a great gain in the end./ /'. •/•■ .".■■■■, ■,"■/:' , r {-..' v ° />> j;> ; ■■■''...'