CANADA’S HERITAGE.

Wairarapa Age, 6 May 1924, Page 5

CANADA’S HERITAGE.

GREAT LAKES WATERS. 4IJJi PROTEST TO U.S.A. (Press Association—Copyright.) (Received 7.55 p.m.) j* Washington, Alav 4.—An important incident affecting the United .States and Canada is just disclosed by the State Department’s publication of correspondence with the British Embassy on the question of the waters of the Great Lakes of Canada, declaring that these waters are the common heritage of the peoples of both countries. The British Embassy protests most earnestly against the proposal to divert the water from the Great LaKes watershed to the Mississippi watershed. American engineers have suggested such diversion in the interests of the middle-western cities uf the United {States which desire to build up a trade via the Gulf of Mexico. Canada, moreover, protests against Chicago’s present diversion of much water of Lake Michigan for sanitary purposes. The Dominion alleges that this has already lowered the waters of the Great Lakes, affecting Canadian harbourg upon which millions have been spent, and that further drainage would inflict great detriment on navigation from Sault Ste. Marie to tidewater, especially injuring Montreal Vi status as the Dominion’s great port.—(A. and N.Z.)