Amsterdam, Oct. 7 With regard to the German-Soviet friendship the confidence of Germans Ir all goes well, the new Waterloo Bridge across the Thames will be opened for traffic in June, 194 Although Londoners are well us now to the sight of staithes and scaffolding, and all of the intricate apparatus of building on the spot where Rennie's bridge once spanned the river, it is hard without special engineering knowledge to follow the exact course of the work. TI has in uniform contrasts strikingly with the apprehensions of the civilian population, "specially the middle-aged civilians, the "Het Volk" stated today.
ilians realize that the} s are in the hands of lid they now openly e the astonishing change in the Reich's policy, the paper added. stem of food rationing adds to the general anxiety advanced so far that preparations are being made for erecting the superstructure. When finished the bridge will have four piers and two abutments. Whereas the old bridge was built on 320 piles driven into the river bed, the new one is being laid on more solid foundations of reinfórced concrete, and the piers are faced with granite, portions of which come from the materials of the old bridge, When the bridge is ready we shall see five wide arches springing from shore to shore, the first of them stretching right over the Embankment and out into the river. These arches, high and relatively flat, which seem, as it were, to skim the top of the piers, will give to the bridge a very light and delicate effect. The arches have a span of 230 feet, as against the 120 feet of the old bridge. The spans are of reinforced concrete, and the facing is of Portland stone.
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