GERMAN CANALS
JOINING UP VAST NATIONAL WATERWAY United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received October 31, 7.15 p.m.) BERLIN, October 31. Herr Hess deputising for Herr Hitler, opened the Midland Canal, which cost £50,000,000. It is 300 miles long and is equipped with a great ship hoist, enabling vessels to leave Magdeburg for Berlin or Silesia or the mouth of the Rhine. Construction took fifty years. The canal joins a network of waterways 7000 miles from east to westward. The completion of the Rhine-Maine-Danube (Canal in 1943, will unite the system with the Black Sea. The Elbe already joins the Midland Canal. Czechoslovakia traffic is expected to be 25,000,000 metric tons a year.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21182, 1 November 1938, Page 7
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112GERMAN CANALS Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21182, 1 November 1938, Page 7
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