Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-10-17
POLES PROPOSE DANz|G
TO ODESSA TRADE ROUTE
With Signing OF Peace, Transcon-
tincntal Route Expected to
Become big Asset.
HY JOHN I.ATUROP.

LONDON. Oct. 1G.-whcn pcac
shall have been signed between 20
land and Soviet Russia. between Po
land and Lithunania. and the hatred!
OF the present shall have been sue
cecdcd by n reasonable degree o
ncighborlincsS between Poland an,
| Germany and Czecho -Slovakia. tire
mendous economic and social forces
| will be released in the beginning o
an era of productiveness.
One OF the enterprises which will
be promoted is the revival of I'll,
| once great trans-contincntul trad,
route from DanZiE on the Baltic Sea
10 Odessa, the chief port on the Black
Sea. There was :: time when this
route was utilized for the conveying
| of large quantities OF goods, and il
| those days Poland. then dominant IL
northccntral Europe, controlled this
| channel of commerce.. Danzig WAS
! Polish. and the Polish influence en-
! tended far southwark from the pro-
| posed lower boundary OF the Polish
state. Caravans transported the mcr-
chandiSc. Danzig, one of the few
cities of the lianSoatic League, flour
iShcd and commanded q great sea and
land commerce.
Far-See!nS Poles today see the re-
vival of this route which was killed
by the Germans who used Hamburg
and Brennan and relcgatcd Danzig
TO a negligible position. For two
years these plans have been in pro-
cess OF development. although moth
ing could be done OF actual work so
long as wars swept the regions
through which the route would run.
Concessions {" Capitalists.
Inquiries. however. have been ma e
as TO sources or capital and certain
governmental concessions have been
planned as an inducemcnt TO capital
projects during the Paris Peace Con-
ference, and the desire TO forward il
was one of the reasons why the Poles
wished to be given Danzig by the
The route will be the Vis.ula River
through Warsaw to the hcadwaters
OF that stream; along Il canalized
zoo miles to the headwaters of the
pneiper River and down that river
TO 900 miles in all from
terminus. Ships at Danzig and
Odessa will trans-ship by modern
dock devices to modern economic
river carriers: there will he local in
land harbors and turning basins Mt
convenient points along the route
ana the Danzig to Odessa route would
ne IN effect what Germany dreamed
OF as her Berlin to Hagdad" or
, Mi,,si EUROPA" scheme, whereby she
q.
tween the West and East.
Hrifcr Than German Route.
II viii be better than the Berlin
TO EaSdad route because it will be
q water level route, which the Ger
man route could not have been. Pre-
C!sciy as the engineers carried tho
New York Central hallway along
Inc Mohawk Trail. so this channel OF
commerce Will follow the lines OF
least resistance and drain central
europe Branch canals and canaliz-
Ell rivers viii be added, until a vast
network OF admittedly economic trade
channels Will serve a region / 600
miles long by almost as many miles
wide.
1T will carry as tonnage the sugars
OF fosen, West Prussia and other
parts OF Poland. the oils of Galiria.
the timber resources of Poland, grain
SURPRISES when normality returns,
cotton goods from the LODI. Poland
great textile center, and other com
moo!ties; while Ukrainia to the south
OF when odessa is the sea port. will
areas. 'he
Just before the late war. GERMANY
nussiA and Austria signed "A treaty
Ior the development of this route
hnt Russia failed TO carry out nor
ehEastmcntS' so the canal never was
Sohs truc'ed. Peace Will cncrgizc the
p.nnHcFS ior IN" enterprise, and IL In
M'h!n economic and engineers laws
10 picture Il scene OF prosperity and
pusS commerce. facilitating enorm-
ous!y the development O. ,hr r.pinn,
traverscd, and welding in,o Sn,,T
peoples now torn by the aninositi'ss
o: bitter ard waS,.fu, ,,,.,.r,,.. '''7