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THE CHANNEL TUNNEL. WORK TO BE UNDERTAKEN SHORTLY.

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Britain and France have agreed to Fahead with the Channel Tunnel. Work at both ends will be started without undue delay.

This decision. eruwning a

series of years, was announced by Mr. Honar Law in the House of Commons on March 15th. I am in communication with the Prime Minister,” he said, "on the sub- feet of approaching, the French Govern- ment with a view to beginning immedi ately the construction of the tunnel in fnd work for, discharged order to soldiers.

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At last the difficulties, rval, and "con." jectured, have disappeared, and the vital submarine link between Eugland and the continent so persistently advocated will be an established fact within the next few years.

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""COMMERCIAL ADVÄSTÄDES, Commercially the advantages of i tunnel are so obvious that they wercely [need emphasis-quicker oransit of goods from our great manufacturing centres to the markets of Europe and beyond; say ing of shipping tonange, and labour of loading and unloading: an inesizable and enormons increase in

passenger traffic, and abolition of delays and vexa tions incidental to the sea journey.

Strategically, the importance of the acheme in the swift movement of troops has been demonstrated in the present war. during which the ability to convey men quickly across the Channel would have had far-reaching effects in several iniltary crises,

TRANCE HEADY TO BEGIN..

Board of Trade officials have been in Paris quite recently in connection with the matter and there they found that the French authorities were prepared to be- gin work from their side simultaneously with us.

The name of Sir Francis Fox is men tioned as the engineer who may have charge of the work in the English section. Originally the scheme was estimated to cost from 15 to 16 millions, but, with the incream in the price of materials and wages, the sum required will be about 201 millions. Improved turtelling machin ery will result in a speeding up of the actual construction, which will occupy from four to five years

KALY AN HOUR'S BUN ACROSS.

According to the one plan that experts regard as feasible, the opening of the tunnel in England will be just behind Dover, and in France just behind Cape Grisnez, and the journey between these two points will be accomplished in bald an hour,

QUR AIR FORCE.. PERSONNEL,

TURE

EXPENDI

6,500,000,

on March 12th, show a maximum stab- Air Force estimates for 1918-20, issued

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DESOLATION AT KIEL. SIGNS OF A HUXILED SPIRIT AMONG THE GERMANS SILENT ENMIry.

LRY RS. CECIL CHESTERTON.J

lishment at home and abroad, exclusive of units serving in India, of 150,000. Of this total, however, 70,430 officers and men- are i course of demobilisation, so that the number of all ranks to be retained during the period of occupation in 79,570. Below are the principal figures: Armies of occupation. 0,600 Home and Colonial establishments, 3,970

Total or semi-permanent footing. 78,576ing mines. In course of demobilisation

One Beard the E.S. Transport

Westward Ho!"

In the Baltic. February 24th: Our journey from" Falmouth to the Baltic has been protracted and adven turous owing to bad weather and drift Several times we have had ......... 70,130 arrow escapes. Once in the North Sea..

but for the fine yenmanship of the cap- Grand total

100,000tain, the Westward Ho would have been. regards expenditure, the total esti blown to pieces. mute.in respect of the new financial year

It was off the Dogger Bank chat [ wit- is £68,300,000. For 1918-19 the expendi-essed one of the most impressive secues ture is estimated to amount to £71,600,000,

but it is explained that the estimate of of my life. The night was misty, the £66,500,000 for 1919-21 includes approses very succth. Suddenly a great Ger- ximately £31,000,000 in respect of services man cruiser, blazing with light, shot which, in 1918-19, were borne mainly by past us, followed by a line of steam tugs, its attendant satmarine. Ministry of Alunitions funds, and to some each with

What extent by Army funds, What addition Their appearance was amazing. to the current

rent year's expenditure of were they doing! And then the mystery £71.000,000 these ebarges involved is not was solved. The cruiser took up a posi- stated, but presumably is largely exceed- tion and began to signal with her power" ed the £1,000,000 included in the new fui Bashlight. Silent and swift came the answer. Five British men-of-war broke

vote.

vote on account of the through the mist. The bunch of sub

asked for. representing Ave penditure.

Appended are details of the strength of the force to be retained at home and abroad exclusive of india, when the de mobilisation now in progress has been completed:-

ARMIES

marines were handed over, mother act

in the dry ma of Germany's downfall was.

complete.

TEARS OF JOT,

W2M where we The Dogger Bank shipped dur Best German pilot, who took us to the mouth of the Kiel Canal. He OF OCCUPATION, CERS. MEN TVIAL was a man of sixty. He steered the flag. Army of the Rhine," including troops in France and Bel- Armies of the Middle

∙gium ..........

East:

1,620 13.800 17,420

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30

1.690

1,180

560

Italy Egypt, and Palestine. 180 Mesopotamia and

North Persia Home and Colonial Establishments." in- cluding units in Fussia and with the

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ship of the German adeiral at the battle of Jutland. and claims that he was the first to sight the British Fleet. He was " a lean and kungry Hun, and his mili tary ardour seemed quenced.

The pilot who took us a certain dis 1,800 tance up the Kiel Canal was the cubodi

ment of militarism. He had belonged 1,390 to the command of U boat 151, and

although he was on board an American ship, boasted in a typically Prussian fashion of the damage his submarine had done in North Carolina. He referred

Grand Fleet 4,300 51,870 58,870 with pride to the bombardment of Char

Total

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leston and Wilmington, and exhibited 6,270 73,300 78,570 his Iron Cross and other decorations. The following explanatory notes added:--

It happened that the officer to whom The figure of 79,370 represents the total the pilot was speaking came from Wil- number of officers and other ranks to bemington. His home was one of those retained during the period of occupation, that had been destroyed. I can think of exclusive of formations stationed in nothing that more clearly marks the India

difference in the psychology of the two number of personnel of the Royal Air the outrage, the American who under The total of 150,000 is the maximum nations the Prussian who boasted of Force estimated to be serving on any day such intense provocation still retained during the year covered by this estimate; his courtesy and self-control. but the lesser number of 19,570 should under the present scheme of demobilisa tien, be reached at an early date.

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One of the principal engineering difficulties will be the quick removal of Those who have passed through the huge quantities of chalk excavated persal stations, but whose period of für by the revolving cutters which it is pro-lough will not have expired by March posed to use. As at present suggested. 3let, 1919, have been included in the num the chalk will be removed from the ber of 70,430 shown sa being in course of |** face" by highspeed endless belts..

demobilisation.

TWO NEW TOWNS.

WORKERS' COLONIES OF TEN OR TWELVE THOUSAND.

TIRPITZ BLAMED.

There was a marked change to the German officials who visited us at Kiel. They were civil, almost bumble, in their demennout. One of the harbour engi

cars gave it as his opinion that the discipline of the German nation was slowly disintegrating.

TWO TUBES 150 FEET UNDER TEA. According to the plan of the House of Commons. Channel Tunnel Committee, the tunnel will consist of two tubes, cap: able of transporting 20.000 passengers and 30.000 tons of goods each way in twenty hours. Ordinary railway rolling stock, including sleeping and dining cats, will be able to run over the route, and there is no doubt at all that the volume of traffic will be such that within The first thing he said, will be to in spite of the stamp of German fifteen years of the tunnel being opened build a town-or, rather, two towns, one it will be found necessary

to construct on each side-for housing the workmen two additional-tubes.

and their families. These towns ought to The tubes will lie 150ft under the be made to hold ten or twelve thousand bed of the Channel so that they will be people, immune from the effects of a bomb in It is impossible to say how long the the event of war breaking cut-and the tunnel will take to construct until we construction will enable the tunnel, to know what machinery will be used." be flooded from floor to roof for a dis- tance of a mile should the military neces sity arise.

Throughout our passage of the Kiaf Canal I was impressed by the curious apathy of the people. The country, cul. tivated with the greatest care, Wa8 A high authority on the construction brightened by a burst of spring sunshine. of tunnels told a Daily Chronicle repre- The villages skirting the banks looked sentative that there were no great dit-clean and well to do. The children seem-" culties in the building of the tunnel, anded healthy and comfortably clothed. it ought to be one of the quickest jobs Physically the war has not touched the ever done.

people-their homes are still intact. But efficiency-the railway bridges spanning the Canal are triumphs of engineering skill--the land. like the people, suggeste curious" desolation-the virtue has gone

NATIONAL BENEFITS,

COMMERCIAL

It is recognised that a huge terminus will have to be built in London to accom- of the Associated Chambers of Commerce Sir Algernon Freeman Firth, President modate the additional railway trafic of the United Kingdom: that the tunnel will produce, and the pro posed site for this is in the neighbour hood of Waterloo. This terminus would probably be the greatest in Europe..

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FIFTY YEARS' AGITATION." BAKON D'ERLANGER ON THE WORK OF THE❘ benefit.

TUNNEL.COMPANY.

out of them.

For the most part they received us ia silent eamity. Now and again a man would spit as we passed--the Stars and Stripes flew at our stern-and would shriek put a curse, but the general ime. pression I received from these figures on

zem, bate the bank was that of a still, almost fro-

TRIUMPH OF LIBERTY. Quick transit means business. It is for It was when we left the canal and. this reason, if for no other, that I bait steamed into Kiel Harbour that I began the tunnel as a primordial necessity for to understand something of what these our commerce and industry. There is people feel. Germany has been struck scarcely any trade or manufacturing in the very vital's of her, pride. The process in the country that would not beautiful bay, skirted by softly undulat ing hills, where the Imperial navy used SHIPPING.

to ride in all its insolence, is empty of "Mr. Alfred S. Williams, one of the Dreadnoughts, cruisers, and submarines. founders of the Atlantic Transport | Nothing remains. At the entrance to the barbour, the Kaiser Wilhelin's own lies the tricolour of France. Liberty on the altar of despotism...

Baron D'Erlanger, chairman of the British Channel Tunnel Co...who return-Line

ed from Paris on Sunday, told a Daily' It is true, some small shipping interests Chronicle representative that responsible will be prejudicially affected by the Frenchmen with whom he had conversed tunnel

but they are very small. in the capital were dubious as to whether

The tunnel, I am convinoed.

the British Government had been con- would be of even greater annacial benefit to England than to our Continental

verted to the scheme,

"But I was able to assure them," be friends. said, that the conversion had taken place. I was naturally very pleased to learn during the afternoon that Mr. Bonaz Law had announced the fact.

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Admiral Degouy, French Naval Ex. pert:

From a military point of view it would For 60 years my company has been easy to prevent its use by enemy working in connection with the proposed troops, in time of war, by a simple in tunnel, and I have every reason to hope stallation and by mounting machine-guna that it will now be permitted to carry at the entrance. I do not see what mili out the actual work-of course under the tary objection can be taken to the enter control of the Government. In that case piise. It is a means for us and our our principal engineers would be 'Sir descendants of dealing quickly with the Francis Fox and Mr. P. C. Tempest, the disturbers of the world's peace. engineer to the S.E. and C.R.

KATIONAL DEFENCE, Lord Sydenham:

In the course of those” 50 years I calculate that the company has expended

The failure to construct a tunnel bas nearly £250,000. The French company proved a gross Daval and military dis has obtained a concession from their advantage at the greatest crisis in our Government which holds good for history: While the national advantages years after the Tunnel is opened; we appear to be assured, I attach as great have no such concession.

importance to the political effects of the abandonment of the policy of railway cleavage from the outside world.

The cost under present conditions will be about £20,000,000 figure which will be influenced by the decision as to the site for the opening of the tunnel. If it is further inland than now propos ed the tunnel will be longer and the cost larger

ENGINELEING.

Bir Francia Fox, the noted expert on Tunnelling:

...

The Watward Ho is the "first of a number of Polish relief ships despatched by America. The Germans complain that the United States are sending food to the Poles so that they may become strong enough to fight them.

---As-I-write this we are anchored in the Baltic off Fischland Light on account of thick fog. In spite of our delay Tam quite happy. There are a thousand things to see and hear, and the charm and novelty of the life are indescribable. I feel sure that the Daily Express". will permit me, through its columns, to thank the officers and crew of the West- ward lo! for their hospitality to the "Daily Express" representative. For myself. I am inordinately proud to be woman allowed" to aboard the first travel in an American Army transport.

Express,

CHAIN OF BUSINESS METHODS.

Edinburgh University Court have: apd: proved a proposal to purchase a site for the extension of the university. A gift The whole of the work will be construct of £10,000 to further progress in the study ed in the bed of grey or Cedomina chalk and teaching of some subject related i Some time must elapse before the which has an average thickness of nearly surgery, by endowing D Lectureship in work can be started-and then, as the 200 feet, and constitutes an ideal orthopedics has been accepted by the face of the tubes will be comparatively material in which to enrry through such Court, who have also agreed to small and the excavation

offer! of £15,000 for the foundation of a accomplished by electrical devices, the engineering dificulty in running tris made by the Edinburgh and Leith Cham-742

mostly excavations. There would mochaje in accounting and business method numbers employed directly, though con at intervals of as little na five minca, siderable, will not be nearly so extensive if necessary, and the journey. I om bers of Commerce, the Edinburgh Herm

London to Faris would be accomplished 88ciety, and the Institute of Bankers in

chant

Company Leith 18mipoonera in less thaa'sir boat.

Scotland.

as those indirectly employed.",

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