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Show Austrialia to Inaugurate New Federal Capital MELBOUTWE, Attff. 14 (By A. P.) The next session of tha Auatalla.i parliament will be in Canberra, the new federal capital which. Ilka Washington, D. C. la a city located and planned for the special purpose of being a national capital. The Australian capital was laid out by an American architect. Waiter Bur-ley Bur-ley Griffin, of Chicago. Canberra Is situated on a splendid splen-did undulating plateau about JO 00 feet above eea level, a little to the north of the highest peaks of the Australian Alps. Tha city alts is divided di-vided by three large sheets of water supplied by the Jugifteh Molongio river, and aJorned by parks aau boulevards. The parliament houae and government buildings will face a central lake with streets laid out In octagonal from around them. On one aid will ba a fan-shaped residential quarter; on tha other the university, municipal and Industrial In-dustrial centers. Mala thoroughfares thorough-fares will red lata from tha parliament parlia-ment building. |