Forecast of Aristade Fulfilled by, Modern Engineers Paris, Apr. 25. has taken 89 years and Frey 155,000,000 to realize the prophecy made 27 centuries ago by Aristad Priestess of Artemis, who told the astonished founders of Marseille miraculous ving one day will seal the union between Marseilles land Litang de Lierre'
Today, with searchlights piercing the subterranean gloom, President Doumergue, leading in a' motor-boat followed by a flotilla of similar craft containing members. of his suite, inaugurated the wonderful new waterway, four anda half miles Tong and 70 fect wide, which hae been tunnelled beneath the Rove, Mountains, The tunnel and canal are the culmination of a remarkable en gineering scheme planned in 1841 begun in 1011, Tt links les with the Rhone via the wide and sheltered Etang de Lierre, which will become an important harbour. The completion of the scheme will ferably benefit industry in the istrict of Marseilles, white, with the completion of the Rhone-Rhing canal, a. magnificent waterway will the "Mediterranean and the North Sen—Reuter.
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