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CHANNEL TUNNEL SCHEME
IS BACK IN FAVOUR
NEXT MOVE UP TO FRANCE
London, To-day.
New efforts are being made in France to re- open the question of a Channel tunnel between Do- ver and Calais.
A resolution in favour of the tunnel has been The passed by the Paris Chamber of Commerce.
HITLER
REVIEWS TROOPS
Vienna, To-day, Hitler and General von Braus- hitch yesterday reviewed Austrian recruits at St. Poolten, 30 miles west of Vienna-Router.
GERMANS TO EAT "ERSATZ EGGS" IN FUTURE
Berlin, April 10.
Since eggs, chickens' eggs, have become rare in the Reich, Germans will in future have to be content with ersatz eggs, made out of
question has also been referred to the Foreign Af GUNS BEFORE skimmed milk.
· fairs Committee of the French Chamber of Depu-
ties.
If the Channel tunnel project is successfully revived, negotiations will be conducted directly between the British and French Govern- monta.
ANOTHER S'HAI
POLITICAL
Suporters on. both sides of │Nå
MURDER
the Channel are waiting for
the French Government to move. For more than 50 years British
opposition has held up
tunnel
plans. The Channel Tunnel Com-
SHANGHAI, TO-DAY.
WANG HSIEN-MING, A
BUTTER
The German Farmers' Organisa- tion made this startling announce- mont to-day when it declared that "milei" or "milk eggs" will soon
NAZI MEDICAL appear on the market.
DICTUM!
Berlin, To-day.
A person eating more fat than is needed for health and strength must be classed as a traitor steal
pany almost succeeded in breaking JUNIOR OFFICIAL IN THE ing from his fellow-countrymen! down this opposition in 1930 when, |NANKING "REFORMED GOV- a free vote on the tunnel resulted ERNMENT,” ́ WAS ASSASSIN- in a crowded House of Commons, in its rejection by a majority of no more than seven.
FIVE YEARS TO BUILD
All was then ready to re-start
This is according to the official
Xession. ATED IN THE FRENCH CON-organ of the German medical pro- CESSION LAST NIGHT.
The body was found in an alleyway next to a popular cinema with deep knife wounds and bul- let wounds. Pinned
to the clothes was
a
Exemption is made for occasional festive occasions, concedes the Nazi organ.-Reuter.
boring on the preliminary pilot note signed by the "Society for NATIONAL
tunnel at the point where work the Termination of Traitors," ac- had been discontinued, by order cusing the victim of being of the Board of Trade, as long ago traitor. Reuter.
as 1882.
1
When work was abandoned, the had been experimental tunnel driven 2,070 yards towards France from under the Shakespeare Cliff at Dover.
It is estimated that the tuunol would cost £30,000,000 and would take four or five years to build.
The first stage would drive
NAVAL MOVES IN MEDITERRANEAN
Gibraltar, To-day. THILE there are now 13 French warships at Gibral- Shakespeare Cliff at Dover, and tar, it is learned that practically
a pilot tunnel
be to between
HOLIDAY PROCLAIMED
Berlin, To-day.
Hitlor's birthday on Thursday has been declared a national holi- day by order of the Minister of Interior.
The order applies also to Mora- via and Bohemia. Reuter.
Sangatte, a short distance south the entire British Mediterranean DANZIG
of Calais.
L
Fleet is at Malta or in the vicini-
This pilot tunnel would after-ty. wards serve as a drainage tunnel
Few British ships are at Gibral-
for the two rail tunnels, which tar and they are mostly destroy- would be driven through the chalk, ers which are based locally.
side by side, and above the pilot tunnel, the three forming an in-
verted triangle.
Reuter.
AND DER FUEHRER
Danzig, To-day,
The Nazi leader here, Foerster,
is expected to offer Hitler honorary citizenship of Danzig during the
It is questioned whether the MADAME CHIANG celebrations in Berlin on Hitler's
pilot tunnel would, in fact, - be needed for drainage, and sugges- tions have been made for ulti- mately enlarging it and using it às a road tunnel for motor traffic,
LEAVES COLONY
Chungking, To-day,
50th birthday. Reuter.
REQUIEM MASS
London, To-day.
VENTILATION PROBLEM Madame Chiang Kai-shek was yesterday welcomed by prominent Ventilation would be a serious officials at the air-field here, hav- Mr. Chamberlain attended Re- problem, for although modern ven- ing arrived from Hong Kong, wherequiem Mass at Westminster Ca- tilation systems have proved en she had spent some time receiving thedral yesterday morning for the tirely successful in long road tun- dental treatment.
Australian Premier, Mr. Joseph Madame Chiang left the Colony Lyons. nels, such as the one under the Mersey, engineers would have to at 9.10 a.m, yesterday in a special The King was cope with the exhaust fumes of plane.-Our Own Correspondent,
the Duke of Kent.. Channel
Iess. 24 miles of traffic, if a Chant road tunnel were constructed."- Total length of the proposed rail
tunnels, from mouth to mouth, NEW ADMIRALTY
would be 36 miles. They would, of course, be operated by electric trains, for goods as well as pas- sengers.
APPOINTMENT
London, To-day.
Railway entrance to the tunnel, Paymaster Captain D. S. Lam- on the English side, would be at bort has been appointed Paymaster a point behind Folkestone, and on Director-General with the rank of the Frence side at a point inland | Paymaster Rear Admiral. from Cape Gris· Nez roughly. He succeeds Sir Arthur Strick- half-way between Calais and land, the appointment to date from
Reuter. Boulogne.
July, 10, 1939,
represented by. British Wire-
HAN RIVER CLASH
Ichang, To-day. Over 1,000 Japanese Infantrymen are stated to have fallen in bloody fighting at Helliutu, on the Han River, about 90 miles above Han- kow, during the last two days, Central News.
The "milk egg" will replace the genuine chicken product both in the home and in industry for it can be scrambled and fried and cooked in all the other ways that Nature's own eggs can be prepared.
The Farmers' Organisation clos- ed with the declaration, "Three factories will take up the produc tion of eggs in the near future."- Havas.
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