Show to 0 link north and black seas plan pan to cut steamship waterway that would be great help to commerce ACROSS S EUROPE BY WATER germany Is considering project of connecting up the rhine and the danube for ocean going vessels washington D C instinctively one due links the mississippi and the missouri rivers years to come may find us as regarding the danube and the rhine in the same way is the comment of ft 11 national geographic society bulletin upon the reports of a to cut a 1 steamship waterway from the north tea ea to tile the black sen sea As for a waterway across europe such su a waterway already exists though travelers through a small section of it might have to resort to ver very y small burall craft information about the condition of the canalized canali zed portion of this trans european water route Is not readily available since the linking of tile the rhine arid and the danube occurs in germany new conceptions of europe the very fact that we classify the legend laden rhine in one mental pigeonhole and the romantic castled danube in another makes the announcement no of a waterway across eu rope come upon us with the impact of a fresh iden idea just as war brought about political changes in europe so peace Is bringing economic changes cli anges pence flence if germany carries out the project she Is considering we will have hale to think of a europe cut through with a water route just as we have learned to think of a europe with turkey almost gone a poland with a boundary and the new names of czechoslovakia and jugo clayla conspicuous upon its map A present water route across europe land and others are possible with very short portages por lies along the rhine to mainz up the rhines tributary main to danaberg Da Ba thence through the regnitz into the ludwig canal to the Alt muhl which empties into the dan obe abe at Kel welhelm helm where two rivers are linked in your minds eye even without a map you can recall two focal points of this route frankfort on the main and or regensburg on the danube vessels of more than 1000 tons can gu up the rhine and I 1 main alain to frankfort and vessels between and 1000 tons can go up the danube as fur far us eis Rat isbon welhelm Kel helm the danube end of the small river cagial link with will tire rhine is only 12 miles southwest t eat of the improvement illel ibl 0 ot r the danube to Kolli Kelli elm elin would offer no great difficult difficulties les above frankfort to vessels between and 1000 tons can traverse the alain the trouble with this route even I 1 with channels deep enough to carry larger steamers from Wurz lurg to Is the extremely course between the rhine arid and the danube from F rom frankfort the route forms n nn n almost a 1 m ost pe perfect r f e c t W n and n d t then lie n t brulls r a 1 1 s off f f 1 like 1 kl a ci cureless i r e i es S flourish ilo u r isi i t through clr 0 1 1 g 1 I 1 nuremberg to Rat isbon A projected shortening shor of tills this route out contemplates passing tire the confluence of the rhine and tile the main continuing up tile the rhine to mannheim thence into tile the neckar arid and into tile the proposed canal from that point to connect with nith the danube near Of fingen T cn completion of the project for this deep waterway across europe would make the rhine ine danube route one of the most important commercial highways of the world ranking in economic importance with the panama arid and suez canals and in extent with the mississippi missouri channel and the tremendous navigable length of the amazon the black to north sea trip would be a journey of nearly 2200 miles the high water navigation head of the missouri in montana Is miles front from the gulf of mexico while ocean going steamers may ascend the amazon for 2300 miles |