PORT MOSCOW
HUGE CANAL SCHEME .'.'■;'. '-•>.■ }'■£•! -MOSCOW, May 10. The Soviet capital; Moscow, 700 miles inland, will be a port accessible to Tessels of 10,000 tons, as the result of fl ; project officially approved recently. The network of canals, envisaged by the sciieme will connect Moscow, via the Volga 1 River, with the Black Sea. Construction under American engineers and largely financed by American capital will begin within a month. Hie Work'is to be given a special impetus as" a : result' of official disquietude over the laggard industrialisation of Moscow, due to continued insufficient deliveries of raw material by the haphazard railway system.; . . , ~ . , .Simultaneously with .the. digging of waterways,' government . labour squads Will pour cement for huge dry. docks necessary to provide Moscow with a Sary harbour." Ministry's share in the scheme is the speedy designin? and .building of a new type of "super pocket warship." suitable for use in inland waterways.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22268, 22 May 1934, Page 9
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