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HARBOUR TUNNEL FOR H. K. Do We Want A Tunnel?

Moslem Leaders Arrested

Lahore Drama

Lahore, Jan. 25.

Six Moslem League leaders of the Punjab, including the President of the Punjab Moslem League, were arrested: yesterday for resisting a scarclif by police of the Moslem National Guards headquarters.

Later, the chief secretary of the Punjab Government said that the Moslem National Guards "Inve been declared unlawful" Its the Punjab, and that the searches were made in connection with this de claration.

The Chief of Police of Lahore. J. P. Norton said that the arrest of League leaders was made under an law on charges of ob-

ng the pullee, Also arrested was the leader of | the All Tricia

Moslem Women's Lengue, the Begum Kamaluddin, who was taken into custody together with three women students at the home of the League Guard Coin-

Recovered-

ADVOCATED

Through Shock! Practicability Emphasised

Nancy (France), Jan. 24.

• All night long Madame Karcher, aged 72, lay in a winding sheet in a circle of weeping relatives watching them prepare for her funeral and too ill to tell them she was alive.

At dawn the relatives ceased praying to change for the burial but when they re- turned, they found the wind- ing sheet disarranged and the "dead" woman breath. ing.

The shock of her near interment so. improved the health of Madame Karcher --who had suffered a stroke

that she now is out of danger:-United Press. IZJAVEZZCOHUNARSTATTETANUNGALINE

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THE JEWS

mander where they had declined to Must Curb permit the police to make a search for some gurs.

Hundreds of uniform badges were

guard offices-Associated Press.

SCORES INJURED

Nearly 200 persong were ported injured last night wsen police charged with clubs at Mus

of the Charing Crown police station here.

Thirty other persons were

takken

By Engineering Expert

NE of the most practical propositions the Hongkong Government can tackle at the present time, both from the financial and con- structional point of view, is a cross harbour tunnel. This, the "Telegraph" learned from an engineering expert this week, who, in an exclusive interview, expressed the opinion that the building of a tunnel would be relatively easy, and that its construction costs could be recovered by tolls in ten years.

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The question of a submarine tunnel linking Kowloon with the island has long been a subject for debate. Its feasibility was explored by government be- fore the war, although no definite official action has been taken on any suggestions, then advocated.

To-day, many people think the time is ripe for the authorities once again to study the proposition and to act accordingly if a harbour tunnel scheme can be proved practical.

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THE construction of a cross harbour tunnel in Honghour is not a new

Idea. As a vague, Indefinite, and intangible notion it has been airly tossed about in newspapers and other public forums, on and off for many years. Now the subject has been resurrected; but this time, the Telegraph" has been able to obtain from a highly qualified and expert source, an Impressive array of practical facts, both as regards construc- tion of any such tunnel and its uses. We feel sure the public will agree they make striking reading, and we commend the Interview to the atten- tion of the government.

Tf, once upon a time, a harbour tunnel linking Kowloon and Victoria could be placed in the category of a pipe dream, now it beconies, not only a practicable possibility, but virtually a necessity. It is not merely that travel faculties, due to the war, are to-day Inadequate, but it is very doubtful whether, in their present form, they can ever wholly meet future requirements. A harbour tinel would be no luxury, nor a while elephant. It could be made to pay for itself within a spare of years, for its very existence would encourage more and more the use of transport by firms and private individuals. It also suggests a natural link for the future with the Kowloon-Canton highway.

Existing concerns operating cross-harbour services may regard prome. tion of a tunnel scheme as a threat to their existence. But as is polated out in our interview to-day, both their capital and their brains conld, and should be invited to help in successfully operating the tonucl suggested that a semi-public Transport Board be set up under govern- It is ment charter which would be responsible for fis construction as well as Its maintenance.. This appeals as a wise and sound suggestion. Cer tainly we feel the time has come when the publle should express itself in seriosta vein on his subject of a cross harbour tunnel for Hongkong.

NEW WONDER DRUG TEST

London, Jan, 24. Doctors all over England were Interested to-day in the case of n yellow-haired girl of twelve who is one of the first persons in England to receive the new drug streptomycin. The nature

of her malady is obscure but

Its symptoms are recurrent fever and for Stree months every known test fas been given to Annabel Bostock in a vain effort to Isolate the possible organism.

Since the drug first was ad ministered doctors have detected a lessening of fever fluctuations, but they are making no

prom-

Ises, because not only is the disense unknown, but the British Medical Council has warned that streptomycin nay accelerate death as well as save life.

The thi's father, James For rest Bostock, is a shoe company executive. His friend, the Earl

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of Shrewsbury, arranged for drug to be shipped here by a Portland, Oregon, doctor-United Press.

100 Villagers Massacred

BEVIN'S WORD IS ACCEPTED

London, Jan. 24. Generalissimo Stalin has ac. cepted the British Foreign Secretary, Mr Ernest Bevin's that the Anglo- Russia alliance is still in force.

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The Soviet official newspaper Pravda recently suggested that was not. It based its suggestion on Mr Bevin's. Christmas broadcast in which he sold that Great Britain's "does no tie herself to anybody ex- cept in regard to her obligation un- der Charter f

Britain complained that Mr Bevin had been misrepresented through being quoted out of context, Pravda yesterday rejected this com- plaint.

but

To-night the British Foreign Office relensed the text of messages ex- changed by Mr Bevin and Stalin. Mr Bevin's message, dated January 18, said: "I am gratified at the ars friendly reception which was given to the Chief of the Imperial General Staff in Moscow and I am studying with interest the account which he has gives me of his conversations. with you.

DISTURBED

Which is why the "Tele- 3. Assuming Harbour connection it would be an advantage_ ¡graph" asked

the following Tunnel questions and publish

Built, What if the railway sidings along Salis- the Would Be the answers given by an expert Methods Adopted?

Engineering bury Rond were moved elsewhere.

5. And What About Venti- in constructional engineering "It is known that the harbour bed

lation? who has made a close study in the strait between Victoria and

"Tunacis under harbours Tsimshatsui is "soft" earth, and not rivers normally require specini ven- solid rock at the levels at which a Jerusalem, Jan. 24,

itation. This is done by installing seized with office records at the day the chance that unless Jews here Improved Transportation Facint soll encountered. In soft

I. Is There Any Need for Tunnel methods depend on the type the tunnel froin one or both ends by Highly placed quarters foresaw to-

tunnel would have to be constructed. irducts and pumping fresh air into tako immediale action against ex-lities in Hongkong?

earth, means of large fans; the flow is often tremism the military would step in

methods are "Yes, I think 10.

available: (a)

assisted by having other airducts, with drastic action to stamp it out.

Shield, with or without compression, connected to suction fans, and thus congested conditions of travel acress

present and progressive lining; (b) cut-and exhausting the foul air from This source said that Jews failed the harbour are only in part due to cover in which a trench is prepared tunnel. The use of a tunnel

the to act the military might have to the destruction move, by dividing the country into during the war, They pre also due the level of the soll being afterwards carbon dioxides, water and smoke, by which the tunnel is constructed, motor vehicles would produce both Jerry facilities Jem que demonstrators in my aread: "sulation" aid to Increased total number of made

that i it would

Hood Allo by

In addition to which the high hum in sup- passengers using the ferries these

"The second method is the one mosphere. But this is cleared by He pressing terrer"

dity would make an unpleasant at- said he did not days.

nost probably necessarily mean martial law.

best sulted to Hong- Then there is the question of im-kong, since by this method it is not forced ventilation, the ale Highly placed quarters pletured int custoty during the day a Palestine as being on the eve of a from the difculty of getting quick tunnels in America and Europe havet each terminal.

usunily fed proving the ferry services, result of demonstrations against the big decision from London and anid delivery of the

Apart ecessary to go so deep. Several being taken in at the top of towers arrests and for declaring that the

that

The Palestine Government's engines and so on, improvement will

¡been Guard was illegal in the Punjab.

necessary vessels,

successfully built by this 6. And Drainage? method. which can Shortly after the rearch, the Chief feeling regarding the foremost need cost a great deal of 201

be briefly described as follows:

"The drainage of tunnels presents Secretary of the Punjab Provincial is a clear policy and that the Govern part of my belief that such money **

"Sections of the tunnel ure

no speclat problem, except, of course, Government announced that the ment was doing everything to em- could better be lavested in the con-up on shore, either in steel or rein-water to the ends of the tunnel.

bullt pumps have to be used to raise the Guard had been declared illegal in phasise the need for finality.

struction of a cross harbour tunnel, forced concrete, the ends sealed with the province, together with Rastriya These quarters doubled the "Grand thus taking advantage of the war temporary bulkheads so as to be nir- 7. Then There is Lighting? Seval Sangh in Hindu youth pr-Mufti would return Palestine destruction to repair and improve tight; the sections are then launched

10 ganization) whose ollees were raided soon and said that any Arab threat transport facilities.

"The interior of a tunnel can be finalexi Into position. Meanwell lighted, the Intensity of light in at about the same time. No arrests to security depended a great deal, were made during the 1SS search, upon how the neighbouring Arab the vehicalar ferry was, as reported tunnel section with due

"Apart from the passenger ferries, while a trench has been dredged, the Intest tunnel being graduated to The arrested members of the states felt and even upon the Anglo- by Sir David Owen in 1941, rapidly for a safety depth of cover, and a/Both florescent and the sodium light- deep enough to accommodate the avoid a sharp contrast from outside League, meanwhile, refused to apply Egyptian

allowance conditions when entering or leaving. treaty question, for bail The Provincial Moslem General Sir Evelyn-Barker, fol--recommended the constructius orbed prepared for the sections to lie 1ng have been installed in such faz

reaching saturation point, and Ja: League Working Committee met to lowing his confirmation of the deaths second service decide on a course of action, but sentence on Dov Gruner, an Irgun dockyard. Here

naval When the sections are accurate pels, the effect being enhanced by adjourned again until to-day when member, ordered all theatres out of thus to be spent could be diverted to position in the trench and Jeined to reflecting surfaces such as tiles, glass, of Saigon in Cochin Chim was re-

gain, the money Joented, they are lowered into Uning the tunnels

A massacre of 100 villagers by Viet with light Namhese bands 65 miles south-west it will meet with League members bounds to troops. Previously cafes the cost of a tunnel.

the preceding section: When the and similar materials. of the Provincial Assembly.

and movie housea had been ruled

What Are the Possible joined, with all joints watertight, the

complete tunnel has been laid. (Contand en Face 10)

ported yesterday by the semi-official Fost of bounds—United Press.

Alternatives?

8. Next Comes That All

French Press Agency. water inside is pumped out, and the Important Question, Cost?

Quoting n French General Staff "Ferries, a bridge, and n tunnel. internal work completed.

"This view has been attributed to communique, the agency said in a The furries are relatively low,

"I admit it is difficult to give any dispatch

me personally in a most misicading Indo-China Imited in capacity (especially for to Do About the Appreaches sent. The cost would depend very French troops were rushed to the its context and misinterprets

You Propose reliable estimate of cost at the pre-

that manner by Pravda, in an raiding bands hastity vanished when of January 15, which takes out of articic vehicles). are subject lo weather vagaries (or example, typhoons), to This Tunnei?

considerably on the method and village. jare expensive in maintenance, both

shape adopted, and

sentence in my broadcast of Decem- since it would "The section of the tunnel would take several

The dispatch sald that the villageber 22. in vessels and piers.

be on a slope down from each shore, prices, both of labour and materials Vinh Long, was set

years to

of complete. Nguyen Sang, in the vicinity "A bridge is feasible, but a dif- with a level section in the middle are likely to change during the con-

Infuet I sald what all other on fire. deult engineering, problem.

In major allied has said, namely that Re-but at each end the tunnel would struction of a tunnel,

addition to those killed, 800 were they based their policy an United quirements would include sufficient cross the shore at some depth.

left homeless by the raid. the dis- Nations organisation. clearance for

passenger liners, connect this with the normal street ever, was HK$16,000,000. In add!-

"A previous estimate of cost, how-patch added.-Associated Press, adequate stiffness

(Continued on Page 10) and strength to withstand typhoons;

considerable length of tlon to this, there are operating coats, gradient would imply access

trasonable vel,

Kradual rise is required, but this such as power costs of ventilation, rouds need not necessarily be straight. It lighting, drainage, maintenance, and jat some height above the shore

each side. This would also probably shape, such as used in multi-storey

on can also be curved into belleal the cost of collecting tolls. be the most costly of the three niter-gorages natives.

"A tunnel is also feasible, by one situated close to the shore and would ticable?

{Such a or the other well established gineering methods. It has the ad-jsive waterfront.

en-occupy relatively little of the expen- "It would be necessary, at least for vantages of a minimum cost of up- "By keep, immunity against typhoons, areas, it would be quite feasible to same charges now paid for

some years, to charge a toll for using reclaiming the necessary the tunnel. If this were kept at the and the accominodation of the cross arrange a direct Barbour services such

access by tunnel portation by ferry, I estimate that water from the lower end of Nathan- Road the capital cost could be recovered

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