RUSSIA AND HER ICE-FREE PORTS.
In view of otheimenafce and the need for keepihg^p Russia; s supply of munitftMifej-'4t i4;s^|afact6ry to learn that the. saivigatioh »t«,^rchangel is not yet closed, and ihal^by m^ana of tlie powerful ice-breataurs which havtf been built or bought sjtoe th|( war began, it is hoped to keeirwie channel open until the end of -th^yA^^ There ia '. good reason taHoeHerß (say^^lie Yorkshire Post) that by tliat time Russia'^ new port on the Murman coast, which comes under the influence of, the Gulf Stream, will be ayailaM£Jox_£Baffic. Between Alexandrovsk""aad "^etrbgrad the -. railway w nearing completiokjg_ Its total length, ia about 900 miles, ml the roll-ing-stock is ready'^apd shippSt arrange- .. ments are now being v made. '^Moreoveafj , a new clause has been iifSm^^y jAoyd\ to iheet reo^uirements^pi th«£& northern ; waters. Iso cbunfi^ with 3&ch possi- ' I bilitiea as Russia iis;.ro,u^f^v^ably situ-/ ated regarding outlota^iiibeuraca. Vladivostokj '■■ at present' tKe'^Snly port, avail- i ab|e all the year round, is fully 6000 miles from th'e.capitaj. : ' , :' '"'.-, '■ >,
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 14185, 30 December 1916, Page 3
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164RUSSIA AND HER ICE-FREE PORTS. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 14185, 30 December 1916, Page 3
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