PROPOSED SILESIAN CANAL.
It is reported that the Baltic-Black Sea Syndicate,'composed of Pplish notabilities, has conceived the idea of a coal canal between Dantzig and Silesia. The authors of the project consider that the Polish riverways will constitute an important factor in the development of commerce between the East and the West. The canal would require eight years to construct and would / cost 350 million gold francs. It would serve 40 important towns and cross a mining and ari industrial region, with branches to Posen and Warsaw. The goods to be transported would be principally coal, peat, timber, potatoes, grain, beetroots, iron ore, and building materials. The, canal would be of great improtance in 7 connection with the reconstruction of Russia, as it . would provide a direct outlet to the markets of Southern Russia and Central Asia.
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Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 129, 3 June 1922, Page 10
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137PROPOSED SILESIAN CANAL. Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 129, 3 June 1922, Page 10
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