Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 64, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 March 1913 — TO IMPROVE UPPER RHINE [ARTICLE]

TO IMPROVE UPPER RHINE

Industrial Centers to Be Brought Into Communication With the North Sea. London. —The time honored Joke, about the “Swiss navy” looks as though it were in danger of losing its point , There is a scheme afoot Involving a sum of about $5,000,000, to provide: for the improvement of the upper por-: tions of the River Rhine from Lake Constance via Schaffhausen and Basle,, up to Strasburg that the Industrial, centers on the upper Rhine may be brought into direct water communlcar, tlon with the North sea. An international committee, com-i posed of representatives of Germany,, Holland, Switzerland and the Duchy l of Baden, are devoting their attention; to the proposition, and it is quite likely that it will be carried out