GREAT CANAL
OPENING IN GERMANY COST OF t £50,000,000 NETWORK OF WATERWAYS • TRADE WITH EASTERN EUROPE By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received October 31, 5.5 p.m.) BERLIN, Oct. 30 Deputising for Herr Hitler, Herr Rudolf Hess to-day opened the Midland Canal, which cost £50,000,000. It is 300 miles long and is equipped with a great ship-hoist enabling vessels to leave Magdeburg for Berlin or Silesia or the mouth of the Rhine.
The construction of the canal took 50 years, and it joins the network of waterways of 7000 miles from east to west. The completion of the I?hine-Main-l)anube Canal in 19*13 will unite the system with the Black Sea. The River Kibe already joins the Midland Canal with Czechoslovakia, and • the traffic is expected to be 25,000,000 metric tons a year.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23183, 1 November 1938, Page 9
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