GERMANY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18750, 2 January 1923, Page 7

GERMANY

BIG CANAL SCHEME. - EASY CONTACT WITH RUSSIA. i IMPORTANCE OF NITROGEN INDUSTRY. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyrig.lt PARIS, December 29. Mr Victor Cambon, a well-known economist and engineer, has returned from a survey tour of Germany. He says that while the other Powers are endeavouring to obtain influence in Turkey, Germany, by building the Rhine-Main _ Danube canal, is establishing easy relations with Russia, hoping to transform the Black Sea into a German lake.. The canal will have political consequences equal to the Suez and Panama Canals. , The main is being enlarged to transit of huge vessels to Frankfort. The water supply for the higher part of the canal is secured by building a >ipe line of 100 kilometres, by which the floods of the lock will supply the canal. It is hoped that vessels of 1500 tons will be able to reach the Black Sea. Mr Cambon also insists upon the importance of tho nitrogen fixation industry, which will supply manure for agriculture as ewll as explosives in the event of war. The capital of the firms engaged in the industry is over £2,000,000. and the output is' - 500,000 tons of nitrogen. Germany is thus m> longer in need of Chilean nitrates, but is able to export a quarter of a million tons of synthetic nitrogen. - A. and N.Z. Cable.