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“general meeting of Tunnel Company held recently af the Hotel, Baron Emili the chairman, pre

mad said:--Gentle" the pleasant duties afronted with to-day, (pleasant is to welcome is side of the table Lord chan and. Admiral Sir Mar-, Perram. After-five years of most, frightful destruction. ace has come upon the world.

it behoves every nation, and mora particularly ours, to set th example of intensified purpose of redorsttuction.

Rightly we consider the com- pletion of the Channel Tannel which we began 50 years ago, oat of-ihe) most important items in our national policy of reconstruct- tomast is essential, in our eyes, from a political point of view, in order, tat link our destinies with those of France as closely in peace aɛ in war and to consolidat. that alliance which-five years of brotherhood in arms has forged and to cement it with that spirit of muteal good faith and confid enonhich will alone ensure its permanency. It is essential iɔ no less, a degree from the point of view of political economy. We must ever keep in mind the fact that we have never been and have no intention of becoming a military Empire; we are not even what some people believe us to be naval Empire. True, we have held the supremacy of the seas for four centuries or more, but it is A supremacy which we have held and wielded for the protection of our com- mercial rights and those of others. Our Empire has been essentially a commercial Empire;: its foundation stones have been trade, commerce, and in- dustry, and that is why it has grown into the biggest and a stronges Empire of which the world's history has kept the recard. If we are to keep this *recónt, unblemished and upchal- ~lenged, we must by all legitimate. and therefore peaceful, means maintain our position in world's trade, commerce, industry. Who will gainsay that in the competition for the markets of the world the, question of quick, safe and cheap transporta- tion is not a dominant factor? The speediest, the most reliable, and, I venture to assert, the cheapest access to the markets of Continental Eprope will be best assured by the construction of the Channel Tunnel, and that is why I advocate its construction on national grounds of political economy.

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