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Show Canal That Russia Needs. Russia's ministry of ways and communications com-munications has appointed a board of engineers to make preliminary sur-Iveys sur-Iveys for the long-projected canal to connect the Baltic with the Black sea. 'The canal. In the making of which several sev-eral rivers will be turned to account, will have its northern end at Riga on the Gulf of Riga, 309 miles southwest of SL Petersburg, while the southern end will be Kherson, on the right bank of . the Dnieper, and 92 miles east-northeast of Odessa. When this project is completed Russia may movo her own ships to and from the Black sea without asking permission. |