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war
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THE MERSEY MIRACLE The Very Idea!
By R. C. H. WAITHMAN
ON VOLUNTEERS!
A
By George
you stop your car at one of of the first cars that entered it.
RE | Russo – Japanese
you a volunteer? rumours still peralat, but nothing now Mersey Tunnel main entrance, no thrill like that first struggle on
If not clean your teeth has, occurred to change the view in Liverpool, and a uniformed foot through the mud and mist previously expressed that neither offelul, leaning out of his window, and pouring water,
Twelve horse-
We plodded through a tunnel and harden your corns and country is ready to throw down brlakly says?
with rocks,
with the H.K.V.D.C. reverberating the gauntlet without a great deal power? Two shillings with pas-only 15 feet high, dimly lit, jauged don the uniform, of the
Bengora." more provocation than it has at Your tickets come out of a crush of machinery-the first pilot
It doesn't matter if you aro down the 50 yards white through the uncharted rock. The only four feet high; and have no to the Tunnel mouth two finished tunnel was made out of parling in your hair. As long other machines, unseen and unsus- parallel exploratory headings, one
as you can stand on your legs—— pected, have made sure about your above the other.
They drove the lower headlug be they never no thin-the Corps itness to go through,
first so that the ground above will wrap them round with put- could be tested.
tecs free of charge.
present received. Further ́ar- { "usked to and before you have heading which the engineers drove
rests of Soviet employees of the C.E.R. may annoy Russia (and that may be the objective) but Moscow is not likely to go to war over them. The Soviet leaders are too ready to handy words. For every accusation made by the Japancia War Office or Foreign Offfee they are ready with 4 counter-charge, which, curiously enough, is usually an insistence that the true state of affairs is precisely the opposite of that suggested by the Japanese, While they are in that mood, little renl'harm can come.
RUSSIA'S AIM
ray,
Your wheels have fun over a weighing device which will bar
Two sets of workmen-there you if you are too heavy, and your root has passed under an invisible were 1,700 men on the job inter
operating a light-sensitive at Liverpool and Birkenhead had cell, which will ring a clamorous been drilling and blasting their bell if you are too tall-that is way towards one another under the if the top of your vehicle inter-river, and no outsider knows just how much it meant when they met, rupts the ray.
slopes downwards, on April 3, 1928, and found that The roadway comparable with their line was no more than five-1 and a the light of a main street after eighths of an inch out of axact dark, prevails for two miles. Ifigh contre. overhead 18 a white, curved roof. The perfect surface of a wide read is divided by studs into four trafle lanes-slow and fast in each direction.
At any time the drills and ex- plosives might have penetrated on unsuspected water-filled assure in the rocks. There was one breath- less spot where the men. were working with shelter of only three feet six inches of rock to separate them from the clay and gravel bed of the Mersey.
Red lighted signs project at the sides-FIRE STATION (every 150 GEORGE'S DOCK feet), ST. (where a junction, with familiar
It has been recorded that 33,- traffic lights, shows a smaller tunnel curving away to the second- 400,000 tons of water were pumped ary Liverpool entrance) and, at out before. in October, 1982, the the bottom of the slope, about a Tunnel was made absolutely water- tight. At one time the engines mile from the entrance, TUNNEL.
were pumping out 4,300 gallons a minute.
MID
Continuous noise surrounds you. hooting and honking everybody at spite of a by-law forbidding
It is a practically safe bet that Russia will ateor clear of anything suggestive of warlike Intentions in the Far East until she has be- come a member of the League of Nations. Not because Moscow has any great faith in the efficacy of the League, but because . Litvinoff la cautious statesman. suspects Japan and still belleves in
When the two headings were the moral forces of public opinion.
enlarged into one big tune of Russia will never appear as the aggressor in any outbreak this carly stage of the Tunnel's cast iron lining weighing 82,000 of war in the Orient, whatever life feels called upon to test the tons was fastened into place. Up background of against that lining went iron happens. And If war does come ocho; and there is and Russia is a member of the rushing air-a sound like the segments, each nearly a ton in long wave over weight, which had to be bolted, League, Soviet statesmen rely upon breaking of a
packed with cement under trem- public opinion to deprive Japan of rocks.
Cars are overtaking and cutting endous pressure, and caulked with allies or of war support in other
are astonished in, You
when lead wire before the last of the your speedometer shows no more water was finally shut out. than 25.
ways.
:
FIRST IMPORTANCE
Now you are accelerating up a gentle slope. Beneath the Bleracy
beneath the keel, it may be, of a 20,000 ton liner you have left! Lancashire and entered Cheshire. A little longer and the daylight at Birkenhead is rushing to meet you. You have been in the Tunnel just five minutes,
NO PRECEDENT.
There was no precedent to guide the builders of a tunnel this size.
If you are cross-eyed and have no chest you are still eligblù ivr service at H.Q., and if you are bow-legged and handsome you will always find a horse rondy to give you a background in the Mounted Company.
Do you know that there are 4000 Britons eligible for wearing the heavy stiff boots of the V.D.C. and that 'only 904 do, and that about half attend half the parades that the other half do?
Why is this? Don't ask us.
We have a pair of the Corps' boots but we have to use them to defend ourselves from schroffs and at fancy dress balls," Our own experience on joining presented one of those pictures of poignancy and pathos which stirs the heart of every Empire bullder. When we broke the news to the sobbing familly it was as if the end of the world had come.
We tore ourselves from the arms of our wife, wrote out our resigna- tion from the pacifist Philharmonic Society and rushed out to get our
uniform,
We were Inveigled into the
The next largest under-water Anzacs on the ground that a dis tunnel-the Holland Tunnel, con- tant unclo had once owned a necting New York with Jersey kangaroo and that the company is 1.76 miles long and has two City beneath the Hudson Riverboasted a very chic hat, but we parale each
road.
After all you can withhold a
hat plume like the Anzacs did, but you can't withhold a pair
Dream. Children, Op 43, Nos. 1 & 2 (Elgar} (London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Lawrance Collingwood).
All the ground has been pre- It has long been the custom in pared for the Soviet's entry nan DD-2144-Quartet. in B Fisi, Op. 130, 6th movement (Beethoven)
(Played by Budapest String Quartet).
full member of the Genova in- Hongkong, to look upon the
stitution next mouth. The tech DB-2168/69-Trio from "The Musleni Offering" (Bach, arr Casella)
Played by the Italian Trio). Government as rooted in its ad-nica dimculties have been re- Election by the As
tuber of 29 feet external have since thought we would have Played by Rubinstein,ministrative functions, leaving moved.
with 20-foot wide done better to have joined the DB-2149--Berceuse, Op 57 (Chopin) ....
WHAT IT WAS LIKE ONCE, Mazurka in B Major, Op 63, No. 1 (Planoforte)
business alone to look after its 'sembly in virtually guaranteed,
road. The Mersey Tunnel is 2.87 Scots. with the application backed by Mazurka in D Major, Op 33, No. 2
own weal and woe. Occasional both Britain and France. The
When the King opened the new miles long (including the branch interventions by Government in political desirability is question- Mersey Tunnel and named it tunnels) and has one great tube in Europe. The Queensway he said that reflection of 40 feet external diameter, with
wide economic affairs have been mark-irreconcilables may refrain from is needed to appreciate its wonder.one 30 feet
The Antwerp road tunnel under
of kilts, without giving a man ed by unconcealed reluctance to voting on the proposal but are un- That is because it is working no
because everything the River Scheldt is only about
a good excuse for not parading. step in and all haste to get out, likely to put in an opposing voice. smoothly:
effortless.
1.33 miles long and the Rother- (Played by Arthur Schnablo (Plano) and members of the an attitude that has been In-In short, there. Is little mystery about it looks orning, six years hithe and Blackwall road' tunnels | Anyway roll up boys, and say about Russian diplomacy. Pri But on the
Acnt you they have vately M. Litvinoff may think of
ago; when I was equipped with under the Thames are respectively that we
promised to mark us down for a Geneva as the chatter-box of thigh boots, oilskins and a sou-4,863 feet and 4,405 feet long,
So that nobody could tell what Europe, but he is astute enough wester and taken down in a cage to realise the advantages of mem- to make my first trip through the emergencies were going to crop up parade for each recruit we gain bership and that the formalities Tunnel it looked anything but in those early days of the Mersey and we've got a long way to go. must be approved, signed and effortless.
Tunnel. One that did arise was I went through half a dozen the discovery that the ventilation sealed before he can give serious thought to the tinder-box of times after that and when the was going to cost £1,376,000 more
Tunnel was completed I drove one than had been estimated.
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"FINISHED" IN ENGLAND
By RENNIE O'MAHONY.
HE fact that foreign girls are Since the fall in the value of the
only with the clear-cut partyT now coming in increasing pound, many English girls have
lines of elections in England.
Re-numbers to our shores to be taken to staying at home Instead Democrats nominating a publican for Senatorial office and "finished," instead of our girls go of going abroad before "coming The process of being "finished" attacking a Democratie President's ing abroad as formerly, points a out." Policies; Republicans publicly an-oral-which surely is that the nouncing their support of Mr. English girl can hold her own in in England has turned the English Roosevelt. Stands the President all the accomplishments on which girl into a new person. She has
(Continued on Page 5.). the foreign girl prides herself. where he did, or can he be sure exactly where he does stand? Of course, there le nothing new in the situation, beyond the New Deal which is bringing it to n head. Predictions of sharp realignments in the not distant future have a
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