Bremen, Aug. 3.
The world's largest lock was laponed at Bremerhaven to-day with minimum of cere, the Lord that any festivities "whatsoever yor declaring in his brief 3
Fwould "not be in keeping with the fact that the country is passing through critical times, Construction of the lock was stated four years ago in onder to accommodate the mammoth diners fof the North German Loyd, Buropa, Bremen, and their project. fed successors, the Europa and. her} isterahip being hitherto compelled to lie alongside an open pier where, with a rough sea going, the ion was at times far from safe, The lock iz over 1,100 feet. long, Inearly two hundred feet wide and thirty-three feet deep and can thus luccommodate liners of up to 70,000 ftons—Trans-Ocean Kuo
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