Paris, Apr. 19.
Plans for the construction of a complete underground city below Paris will be submitted to the Municipal Councillors for approval shortly.
Thirty of the eighty Councillors have promised to support the plan. It passed, practically a whole city will be built at a depth of about 240 feet under the ground. The earth under.the capital consists of solid white chalk, easily excavated.
The plans includes building one-way motor highways to relieve traffic congestion on the surface, while in time of war the underground city would be used as a shelter against air bombings.
The surface would be reached by lifts or spiral staircases. built along the walls of huge rooms in the form of spherical vaults with machines to ensure adequate ventilation and air-conditioning throughout the underground city.
The roads would meet at right angles every five hundred meters, while on the principal highways cars would be able to travel at a speed of 100 kilometres per hour.
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