Making Berlin a Seaport
Germany proceed* steadily with tlio development oi her canal system, and :n the near future a number of important extension. w,l| 1„. open for traffic (the "Daily Chronicle" states). Tin tScrlin .Met C.wiai is a noteworthy <&. gtiuvriu . le.-it. L otart.s ou Uib \q& .de o- llur.iu and runs in a ire.™ >emi-circle to Oderl _-rg, where it fails into tho river. It is about sixty imk* long, and has cost something ot__ £2.000.000 to build. It- connects tho capital of the Empire with the greatest Prussian port ; it binds Berlin ana Stettin. Berlin .nd the Oder hattt of court, c, been united for somo considerable time by tho Finow Canal, but that waterway, with its score of oW. la.hioited locks and the fault of narrowness, has long been out of date. Th. new canal will carry cargo vessels of (iOO tons, and that vessels of such si_> will now go direct from £u>Uin to Berlin really means the opening of a i ew epoch in German internal tr__» d<-rc'.)f.men». It m.kes Berlin Tirwally a seanort.
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Press, Volume L, Issue 15022, 17 July 1914, Page 6
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