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Timaru Herald, Volume XC, Issue 13280, 8 May 1907, Page 3

ri'lie German Government lias decided on one of the greatest engineering works of modern, times, nothing less than the deepening and widening of the Kaiser Wilhelm Canal, -which curs, through Southern Holstem and connects the North. Sea with the' Baltic.' '-'lhevwork will take ten yearn to complete and cost ten millions sterling. The existing canal was opened in 1890, . to facilitate navigation between the' North and Baltic seas, and' enable the German' fleet to pass safely from one- sea to the other. Ifr took eight years to build, and cost nearly eight miliions.' sterling; biit wilh the lapse of time the" canal has been found- to be wholly inadequate for the passage of the war and peace leviathans which* have been built io recent years. Both the-German Admiralty and the leaders of the Commercial marine, are agreed that for coming. ships of the Iheadnoiipht class, and for hug-a American liners the present dimensions of the canal are Timeless. 'l:he Reichstag has not vet been presented with the plans, and it is not yet known how the buroen of cost will be spread over the' various states of the Empire, but it is probable that Prussia •Rrill pay half, as her interests are' t.ue. more largely involved*.