Value of Kiel Canal to Germany. Report by J.I.C.

believed that some shipping which has passed through the Canal is putting in at Swinemunde and other ports near the northern sector of the Eastern Front as well as at isolated ports in the Eastern Baltic; it is likely that the cargoes of such Shipping would include military supplies. As the battle for Western Germany develops however, the military value of the Canal may alter. If,for instance, the Germans were to hold North Sea and Western Baltic ports as fortresses and a line covering the Jutland Peninsula, the Kiel Canal might provide a limited lateral line of communications; its value would then merit further examination.