PORT MOSCOW.
Huge Canal to Link City With Black Sea. MOSCOW, May 10. The Soviet capital, Moscow, 700 miles inland, will be a port accessible to vessels of 10,000 tons, as the result of a project officially approved recently. The network of canals envisaged by the scheme will connect Moscow, via the Volga River, with the Black Sea. Construction under American engineers and largely financed by American capital will begin within a month. The 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 military harbour. The War Ministry’s share in the scheme is the speedy designing and building of a new type of “ super-pocket-warship,” suitable for use in inland waterways.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20310, 21 May 1934, Page 1
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