| Show LVML ACltim IUUUII Tno onicUI organ ot tbe Austrian mlnltlry of Ihe Inlerler Monataobrlft fur den OHenlllcheu BauJlentt la I advocating ttrongly tie obstruction of a cinal acrota central Europr am nectlng Ihe Jllack Hea with Ihe North Sea The tchtme Is not to v t u ml htbelhougbt aiflnt ineotlon i Involve n great outlay of funda am cottlderable engineering tklll Acltl ally three navigable livers would Le ulllieoi Ihe Danube from tbe Itlack Sea lo Vienna then a canal frdm the Austrian capital u6lhweslerly to Budweli on the upper Moldau then the lloldu and lbe rlveia to the North Baa Ttae Idea of courte gee bid to remote times Joarlei IV the tleplaiher of Ibo German empire and lalher of bis own country Uohemla made a culling through Ibe lloseuberge at a tlarllnit point for the canal In 1809 Two hundred yeara later a lull project providing Iccaa was drawn up The Austrian government hit dreaded II e eipense and not taken any stea as yet but may be Induced to da eo now A committee hat been appointed and of the Ibree projects culimltteJ that via Iiiuiia anJ Vcrlug has been approved ot The turvey and tbe preliminary pre-liminary WJtk have beeu done It It now a question of fund H It I till mated that 21 metera ol water netrly tevon fetl tould betecurel nil Ihe way from Vienna to Autrlg oil Ibo KIU near tue frontier Bxiuy with tbe expeudllure ol 100 million llorlui aboul 50000010 aud II lipolutid I out that Uermiuy might help sluoe ihu dlttance between Hamburg and Bullua would nailmlulehed by 45 pur cent and htlwceu Himburg aaJ Con lanlluople bjr 41 percent It would not De surprising lor tbu close of IbO ulbetceuih century to wltneea active construction ol a cinal between th > points named elnce Ihe tendency el getting western Europe Into oloitr Biticlatlon tban ever before with Uan gtautluople aud tbe country tack nl II seems to ho a wave reaching to every branch of public sentiment toiniaerct Includid |
