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Show Soviet Planning Vast Use of Electric Power An electrified country is the aim of Soviet Russia. The current is to be ased in every industrial field of operation. opera-tion. Millions are being appropriated by the government Every possible kind of fuel peat, oil, waste, anthracite anthra-cite waste, lignite is to be utilized, says the Providence Journal. The rivers are being dammed and sidetracked, so that they may spread their power over the industrial regions and at the same time offer better transportation. Canals are to link the Improved rivers. A system of waterways will connect the Baltic sea, the avenue westward to the Atlantic, the Black sea and Soviet Russia's trade routes to the East The basin of the Volga river, which empties emp-ties into the Caspian sea, is to have Its canal to the Don, and through the Don basin its outlet to the Black sea and the Mediterranean. |