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k ARI8.—Amertra Is nnt Uv only nation “ In the world that Is MMUIg farewril to a policy Of splendid I- dodon these days. , Crest Rrllaln has joined the procession, in it ptiyslral sense, accord Ins to plans now on !<«*. and is shoot to join herself to the mainland of Bsrvpe with a tunnel under the Kr ^llel; channel. c uneetinjt the British tide* with France Away back In 18U2 the Ides started, before Napoleon's career was finished at the bottle of Waterloo. And now, morv than 100 y**Ts later, the plans arc bet or gone over for the fiftieth time, perhaps, and all todicrtkms point to

Qostin* only J100.000,000, and being at most a ■eren years' job. the whole task 1* being ap- ' prodebed with a cunfldence that is typically British. Compared to war espensea, the »100.000,000

Is trifling. The Freoeh faror the plan.

Napoieon himself flm officially suggested the plan of connecting continental Europe with the British isles by means of a tunnel. According to the story Mill going the rounds In Europe, Napoleon's Inspiration came from uu engineer of the name of Math leu in the early days.of the last cen-

tury during the peace of Amiens.

Now member, of the Britli h cabinet and parliament are trying to get alterations started at once and 'v some weeks Inter (turners of view* hare place between the various interested eie^enta In England and with officials of the French govern men t without any official cold water having been thrown In sufficient quantity to dampen the

ard**- of the several promoter*

Daring thp wv a tunnel under the straits of Dover—the site approved by all pnanoters of the plan—would have been v-tiil-amissing to the EngUah. to Mtyjhc lenst. milltair critic* state. Twice, •t least, before the Germans were finally defeated. U»e whole progress of the war would have barn affected, to the disadvantage of the allies, had the English held marshal been cor.jKrlled to try to protect the French entrance to o tunnel. • Dnrfn* t! « retreat from Macs to the Marne. In 1814. a tun -I entrance on the French, side would have Placed the English general in the dilemma of either retreating toward th- tunnel to nave It or keeping In touch with the t rench in the getters! retreat and thereby prear.-tlng some kind of a cooUnuocs f. ,nt again*-, the German*. By breaking from the French und falling back on the tunnel, the BritU. fore* would nave liven surrounded and probably tv. .-*<1 to surrender. If Is figured out by

prukitnen. i .my men in Engttod.

Before .nr w

e was considerable army and

•avy obj.< tfon in England to the tunnel project. Aad **•*■“ the war came It was found that poa•nam.^i <4 a Miner n, the fir*, *uge» of the war wtmld have beeti a MtImh._• rather than un asset. Now, t rwever. wi.n the adtapeement of enfilaaeriltg kn<rt.ledge old dHBmltb-s are remov.d It Is planned |o InstaM In the runnel an arrangement wh.ceby one mile of the tubes ran 1^- fl.K*led. urttliout actually destroying tlie whole siructure] thereby preventing the possibility of intsiduo of «

huatile army.

Artur I steje have taeen taken to wound (dficlal opinion in Frame. Honar Law of Grtal Britain has cwntu uni rated with Frime Minister Uoyd George In Paris, asking him to up|>raarh tbr Vremh government for Its view on the subject. It if bHIeved by official rin-les li, !>md»n that the whole pru(<osltion is one for the French and British government* to settle, and m.; * sul.jcet for dhwvnwtoii at the jwwcv confercmca

An Old Progoaitlon.

Ma /ears ag.. the fiiwt tunnel was Marled from the English side iM-neath Ums straits of Imver. At the prisont time the oid tem-s Mill ertend il.OUu yards toward tlic Frv-n. b ruaM The newer plana, however, will renut-e lw« tul--*. running aide by side. 900 feet henmtb the surface of the sen. ( tt) e tube would be used for French fr tt^ trt.lT.c entirely and the Other tube would be used fur Ijiglish

bound train*.

Invewugathai has ahown that tl>e water In the •traits "f Inner M from 1«» t.. ]M) feet deej. a! tbs nxwt. The bottom of the sen Is a kind of rhalk fertrarton that ha* been rendered wnt.-rtlght by the maHrurion t»f clay sediment. This chalk :«] Is aliool MW feet thhk. so that a tunnel .«*• f t ... bene* 11. the siirfarv of the Sea. foIh>wii, K the ch*ik atratu. would prvrbahlj he safe enough, the en-

At fairly ■ioae Intervals the two t

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principal cftlc* of the continent, once the tunnel If completed. And the traveler will be nWe. If suggested plpn* nre carried out, to leave Loudon at regulur Intervals on through trains for the far &*t. the near East, ns well as Fetrograd. Booe. Vienna, and the Balkans. When the first channel tunnel was discussed Informally by Napoleon with the British ambassador to France during the pence of Amiens. In ly 2 - , * M ‘ matter was talked over Ik a spirit of friendly co-operation. In those daya n carriageway was proposed. Two years later, in 18M. when a different spirit prevailed between France and England, the British champion of the tunnel idea hud virions of French soldiery marching to the Invasion of their little island through a submarine

the engineer, estimates will be poasIMs—London will be literally no- door to Pari* and In direct touch with ell (j Europe nil the time. This will mean two or three day* saved by travelers going from New Tork to Faris—to say nothing of the comfort of those who will escape the rough channel trip from England to France, when even the sturdiest sailors frequently suffer from

vuti'T of the chalk had. ihc two tat- * should be

! ■***"«' will ha tunuccied by rail will ah th*

Th-wne de Gamond. a generation later, revived the proposal. He waa a special 1st In cross-chan-nel traffic Ideas, and also bad a scheme for constructing a stone and I roc bridge across the straits of Dover. He also drew up plans for c stooe-bullr tsthmua arms* the channel, with openings through which navigation might pa**. He aim sugg-.-led the building of a gigantic pontoon bridge. These numerous schemes and their possible modifications were discussed In England end France for yean. By 1874 It commenced to look as If something would indeed be done to realise the dream of Napcieon and Gamonde. In that year a company was formed In France which obtained a conceaaion to start work. One year Uter. In 1875. another company was formed in England, known as the “Channel Tunnel. Limited." which ohjdned permission of the British parliament to begin work. The French company, which was called the French Submarine railway, took c-nuy samples of" the silt from the chunne! bottom; made morv than 7.000 soundings; rank a shaft, and actually suited a tunnel at Sangatte, driving It a mile and a half beneath tht sra. according to preuent-day recounts of the operat vi. Experimental work waa carried on by the English company for a year or so. And then Its charter expired L. 18S0. By 1883 there were two English concerns trying to secure sole rights is the construction of n tube. The second concern went by the name of (be Submarine Continental railway, in which Sir Edward Walklii and the Southcosiera railway of England w«»e Interested. When Sir Edward's ;«ny tried to begin work beneath cec of the . .iff* of Dover opposition was Maned by the (Tianori Tunnel, Limited, group. Stepped by Parliament That same jear raw a derision in the British FerUamem whim dashed the bu|>n „f both <*aapenle*. it was derided by a >4ni erieet commltte* of the lords and eommnns that “ft *». ' jiHsat that parliamentary sanction he given to « submarine cummanlcation I-etw*en Englaixl and France." So the "JMcyurd long lUtmeJ Ihal f-e»i •vKK(rfe<ed after n recooriliatloa «f tin- iwo <van|«mes mierested was closed by government older, si.d (be («., rival companies, combined as liw Ghsusel TuooH Limited, determined U> keep the Idea alive for-.-vermore. even If they were jo-mutted to do nothing else. Today the French and English engineers do not known dehnllely that a mutlnuou* Mratutn .rf firm •balk exists tiebeoth the entire >-faannH from the English t* H.e lYaocb ride. T1*») do know however, that to ail ap(>earaRcta the stratum is c- utluuous. because drill boles have shown tliat the f-erualMxi of the Fnoch side Is very much as •« tb* ride. The ••haifc cliffs at <'«p Grimes, m Franra. are of tlw- identical geological fortuatbm as the ,-iur, Bower In England. and rest, as d.. ihc 1-higlish rilff*. «,*, H stratum of gray chalk 2U0 feet in thlckcesa. It Is assumed the ram- gray *halk Is tn be found lb a solid, water rv-sl^tlng layer for the Zi mile* that separate the two •vuutrlcs. The houtheastern railway uf Kbglaitd Is now Hi tcrested m starting the tunnel at once. An ,.metal of th<- railway has stated “If the British tt.1 Fren-h goverTiments give the word the ebstuu! tunnel -an le started tone.rrow. All tbc piuii are ready, and Im-e ie-«o at no iiw7.* W ben this new agitation of the tutiaef i.leo start ed in Enstand « short lln.e ago it wgs at first as sumrd that Ileus*nos of .len..4dli*«d wMlera could find y*!» with the enterprise But It wum slmoM I mm.-dial el y uffirii.lly stab-d that a ...u,l«rativefy sriall nan her of men would l«e n.vded— sevurnl hundred nl th* mast in Ike imwatime the re*.ii..n ic France to the pir.t> was tsvteable. The l"sri» nrwepapet . rv- . ktied that eugg. stlon came originally fron. France it, 1»CC: Ills' rt-ollrjitbjB of the plan wx>uld bring .lumen** ben. fit to humanity generally, and that as tb* Brim •** Fan* stated It. "Hetwfnrth Great liritain vdi in <sl«ker to rveiiie h«r Buregwcn mlaaton. . nd iu r .'sys uf -qilmdid Isolatiun will u gone faro*. * With trams rnutilng at five and ten minute Inuu vaio ; whttE is the fraqomey tilr Fraorio Fox.

There are many “If*”’ about the whole buslncw. but one “11" exists that has attracted a lot of attention from the public, -.nd that R “If the tunnel la built It *111 cost no more than one day’s com of wart- and ct moat tbc cost of two days of war." One or tvm hundred million dollars exixwded on any worthy enterprise thear days Is considered as a trifling ma by hven the man Hi the strfiqt.

The amawicetnent of the project causes no surprise on this side of the AU'ntic. America Is rather disposed to wonder that the tunnel was not built long ago. The truth is that when Bieriot flew from French soil to English soil Jntt before tbc war" John Bull opened bis eyes wide and they have not closed since. His marteriy Isolation of centuries waa gone in a twinkling. Much has happened stnen then The air l* darkened every day with air navies passing to and from London to Faria Hritacnj rule* the waves under the new league, all right, but the “waves" are not oil ami ao one knows this better than the lady with the trident, who Is giving much of her time to the new medium of communication. But the point Is tbs; the conquest of the air has given the tight little Island a new view . 'lings. The dlstan.u between Dover and Calais—« hit of choppy sea moat of the time on the surface—la to be overcome by tuimri. The government leader In the British house of commons hits no announ'vd. It will be a joint governmental undertaking to l«e started as part of reconstruction. A matter of a hundred million* to two natl.-nv. Innocently believed to In- bankrupt from the war. 1* no harrier. Tunnel construction t* the steel rod In the cement of jn-.c* covenants. Both i at Iona are fa«t becoming bilingna! The tunnel wTIl help along ibe “entente <->.rdlale“ afier the war. As a sense of protection for U«tb oatloos. tbe channel tunnel will he of avail. It is maintained that If tbe bore had been In existence five years ago ’hlng* would have beet, different and a four-year agony would not have fallen uj-n tb* two nailotiK. Fifty years ago. when tb* tunnel project waa (h-clarrd to 1* perfectly feasible Hum ra engineering point, military men oppoMri It. It U very amu*. ing reading tbe drbties of ihose fsr-cdl daya. V-f-iand. they raid, could never afford to take chances with a funnel; the Island would t>e no lunger an Island; waiM dark night the enemy would seise*!be GW* ends <rf tb* bor. and V. and t« bold: Engiand would I* invaded! Btrafegtsts cudemned the plan- much to (he dl»c,iaifiture .rf l.nrinera. Before th. war broke, when tbe new discovery In aviation cti-ngod the |>rTspe.ilve ( tunnel m .mMrtim.it was te-iag urged. Now as a war m.-oKure —and Franc* nod Bi.tam are stiil taking iswqiwtion* in ras. the tnllUunluin I* a false alarm the tunnel I. «p|*ovcd by army met; Ormimemally the** never was any question al-.ut u. Franca has sought it conriaiently far almost a century. France lu.* v Mon. Internstloual tutin. 1 r-nMnu-tbiu fa Iu I*, the order «>f the (lay. Th* mmucis are to be y.in.d cl.Mer b .get her. The Mrails .4 GU.ralur are lo be t'mneled If idana cwny, and very likely East nn.t West--1be ••'.Idem and the Or.ml—will i-r j.4 B e.| by a tunnel under th. Boe!..rua. And it u ueij within th. hounds that ll.ia .ontinenf may I* linked with another csillnent l.y Bering stra-.l lunnel. firs' propounded by au cany gvtven...,- U Cutorudu.

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returned.

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No.

Wa» it tbe portrait of his dead but ! deerty ratnetahrted daughter.

No.

What. then, was th* cause of LU haggard face? Was It not the same portrait tL»t two minutes ago had fallen from If : nail, and raised a lump as big a* a ;!*«■* egg on his bend?

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Los the least sens* to It."

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