THE GREAT LAKES.

Gisborne Times, Volume LX, Issue 9797, 6 May 1924, Page 5

THE GREAT LAKES.

WHICH COUNTRY OWNS WATER

CANADA OBJECTS TO PROPOSED AMERICAN DIVERSION.

(Received May 5, 8.45 p.m.) WASHINGTON, May 4. An important incident affecting the United States and Canada has just been disclosed by the State Department’s publication of correspondence with the British Embassy cn the question of the waters of the Great Lfakes, Canada declaring these waters the common heritage of the peoples of both countries. Canada protests most earnestly against the proposal to divert the water from the Great Lakes watershed to the Mississippi watershed. American engineers have suggested such diversion in the interests of the middle and western cities of the United States which desire to build up a trade to vie that in the Gulf of Mexico. Canada, moreover, protests against Chicago’s present diversion of much of the water of Lake Michigan for sanitary purposes. The Dominion alleges that this has already lowered the waters of the Great Lakes affecting the Canadian harbors whereupon millions have been spent and further drainage would inflict a great detriment on navigation from Sault Ste Marie to the tidewater, especially injuring Montreal’s status as the Dominion’s great port. —A/ and N.Z.C.A.