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Show INLAND WATERWAYS WILL BE UTILIZED LONDON", March SI. Inland waterway water-way advocates in the United States will be interested in the promised revival re-vival of that means of transportation in this country. It was brought about here by the action of the government in announcing its intention of taking control of ' such of the non-railway owned canals as are required for essential essen-tial traffic." The government already has control of th rauway-owned canals. England haa 4000 miles of neglected inland waterwavs. Thoy fell into disuse dis-use because of cheaper and quicker transportation by rail. But now that the railroads are raising freight rates more than 50 per cent, tnere is growing feeling, especially among manufacturers in the big industrial centers, for development devel-opment of the waterwavs system. It is pointed out that in fcrermany it ha-s been possible to transport freight more cheaply from Cologne, Frankfort j and Mannheim to London than from Birmingham Bir-mingham to Loudon, a distance of little more than 100 miles. The answer here is that this is due to Germany's development devel-opment of her inland waterways. The whole inland wo tor ways aues-tion aues-tion promises to be one of the after-war rblems in this country. |