The report of the Channel 'Tonnel Committee is diseussei all the newspapers. ""The 'Times' Gnphasizes that nothing would justify it but incontrovertible proof that it would add to comfort and prosperity, promote foreign trade and relieve unemployme "The Chane} tunnel," it adds, jg not to be compared with the Suez Canal or with the Panama Canal, or even with such a venture ax the first London tube. In all these undertakings, private enterprise was rightly prepared to venture and, if it had losses to suffer, there was, as events have proved, general economic gain.
The "Manchester Guardian," which favours. the tunnel, criticizes the recommendation that the scheme should be carried out without Government assistance, "With without the State, however," it says, "if the project is economically scund, it should be attempted. Today it seems hardly possible that. the same military and strategic reasons, which have never been publicly stated, because they are rooted in instinct and not in reason, should be allowed to prevent the accomplishment of a project which comfort and strong and impartial commission declare to be economically desirable.
The "Daily Telegraph" and the "Morning Post" show no enthusiasm for the project. The "Daily News" says that the strength of the scheme is the extreme weakness of the argument against it, The "Daily Mail" says that the report justifies the building of the tunnel now, and the "Daily Chronicle', also' warmly supports the echeme—Wireless through Reuter,
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