CANAL THROUGH FRANCE
FOR OCEAN-GOING VESSELS ATLANTIC-MEDITERRANEAN LINK PARIS, Dec. 16. It is reported that negotiations are being concluded between French, British, and Dutch interests for the construction of a canal for oceangoing vessels linking up the Atlantic ind the Mediterranean at a cast of £90,0011,000. The work will chiefly consist of the deepening of the existing water routes between Bordeaux and Lanouvelle. It would be important strategically, as it would enable the British and French fleets to have easier communication between possibly threatened points. At present destroyers alone are able to use the existing waterways. Moreover, the canal would be a commercial highway similar to Suez and Panama. The work will occupy three years and will probably be finished in 1942.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23686, 19 December 1938, Page 9
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