THE KIEL CANAL.
Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, April 29. The first instalment set, apart for tho Kiel C'nnul is £750,000. The Hcrlin correspondent, of the London Leader, writing on February 28, stated:— "It is rumoured in parliamentary circles (hut the Government intends shortly to ■ introduce a bill providing for tho widening of the North Sou Canal, which is too narrow to admit the pnro of battleshif.s of the Dreadnought type, which Germany is apparently about to. lay on tho stocks. Tho sum required for the work, including the considerable alteration of the locks and swing-bridges, was estimated originally at £12,000.000. Now it (s anc.ouncod tlvat, tho .State engineers iriisulculatixl Ihe cost, and that a sum of 10 millions will probablv be sufficient. It is proposed to raise this- sum bv means of a loan, the method of which "was contemplated alfo for the construction of a UliKvay into tho mlerior of South-West, Africa, but which tho Reichstag refused to grant. Seven years ere allowed for the work."
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 13891, 1 May 1907, Page 5
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167THE KIEL CANAL. Otago Daily Times, Issue 13891, 1 May 1907, Page 5
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