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Show New Canal IVl""! In Frame ut the present moment there I an active movement for tbe construction of a canal uniting the Hcheldt nnd the Mcuse on French territory ter-ritory The construction of the canal as propositi would shorten the distance dis-tance betwien Dunkirk nnd Mauberge 118 kilometers (about eighty mllea). Tills lannl would enable the coal mine of the north of lranco and the I'ax do Calais seriously to lompcte much, moro effectively with Antwerp aa a port. The conference of the French chambers of commerce has passed a resolution urgently calling for tbe proposed canal Thl Is alarming alarm-ing tho Ilelglans, who fear such n competition, and who, In face of It, demand that tha government should yield to the domandt of Antwerp to construct tho much-longed-for tanal that shall connect tbo Ithlue directly with that city. |