The financial success of the tunnel is certain, because even 60 per cent. of the existing trafic would ensure its paying its way, and who can doubt that it would attract and could handle successfully an enormous increase on the present traffic?
The reverberations of its construction upon unemployment woul be enormous. Adjacent to Waterloo would need to be constructed a great world terminus. The Channel tunnel track would be electrified, and the lines feeding would be converted te the same system, in Spain is dering the construction of a tunnel beneath the Straits of Gibraltar connecting Europe with North Africa. The possibility thus opened up of a through service from London to the Gold Coast.
I visualize our London as the centre from which would radiate services, via the Channel Tunnel, to Practically the entire world, with the exception of the Australian and American Continents.
Perhaps even America could be connected by train ferry across the Bering Strait during the summer months, for from East Cape (Asia) to Cape Prince (Alaska is but 40 miles. This last, however, is a vision of the remote future.
The more or less immediate future, following upon the construction of the Tunnel, would see the possibility of through service from London all European centres, of an overland route to India and China—think of hating Cross to Pekin!—to Exynt and the Cape, and through Europ? to the Pacific at Viadivostock.
To make this possible we need but construct a tunnel 22 miles long. of the Wireless Station at Chinshan, near Macao, has been transported to Canton, says the "Canton Gazette" whi explains that the building of station was destroyed and the mad nery partly damaged recently by typhoon. The machinery, the paper says, will be stored in Canton tem. porarily for the time being until funds are available for the repale of the building and machinery of the station.
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