21 SEPTEMBER 1918, Page 13

INTERNATIONALIZATION OF CHANNELS CONNECTING THE BALTIC AND NORTH SEAS.

(To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."1 Si,—The internationalization of the Bosphorus and Dardanelles is a hackneyed topic. In view, however, of the numerous projects on foot and publicly discussed of canal and river systems, Rhine- Danube, Oder-Elbe and Danube and Vistula-Dniester, connecting the Black Sea and the Baltic, and the commercial and strategical power which the control a these canal-river routes will place is the hands of those who control them, I would suggest that ths channels connecting the North Sea and Baltic be also inter- nationalized by the Post-War Congress. The future of the Kitd Canal need not be touched upon here, but an open Baltic would, I conceive, rob that canal of its naval value.—I am, Sir, &c.,