Canal Across France: Huge Scheme
(Received 1.30 p.m.)
PARIS, December 16,
It is reported that negotiations are being concluded by French, British and Dutch interests for construction of ,a canal for oceangoing vessels, linking up the Atlantic .with the Mediterranean, at a cost of £90,000,000.
The project chiefly consists of deepening existing water routes between Bordeaux, on the Garonne, and La Nouvelle, on the Mediterranean, just north of the Spanish frontier.
It would be important strategically, as it would enable the British and French Fleets to have easier communication at possibly threatened points.
At present, destroyers alone are able to use existing waterways. Moreover, it would be .a commercial highway similar to the Suez and Panama. The work would occupy three years, and would probably be finished in 1942,
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Northern Advocate, 19 December 1938, Page 7
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