Tokyo, Dec. 20, Thirty-eight years after the project was frst advanced, constriction of a '¥.45,000,000 canal linking Tokyo with Yokohama will begin carly next year, under the joint auspices of [Tokyo and Kanagawa Prefectures, Tu addition to the main canal, nine metres deep, another channel will be dug, parallel to it, for smaller vessels. The project "will be completed in eight years.
The excavated earth will be used {for a vast reclamation project which aims at creating a new industrial zone in the suburbs of Tokyo—Rengo,
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