MUCH OPPOSITION.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 37, 13 February 1929, Page 7

MUCH OPPOSITION.

CHANNEL TUNNEL. Mac Donald States His Cabinet's Attitude. POSITION IN 1921. < rniteil SrrvK-f. • i IJoi-fivoil ;i a.m i LONDON". Febnian 12. -Mr. Ramsay Mac Donald. wlx. was Prime Minister in lf>24 wlion the la.«t effort was made to obtain the (JovernnieJit's .sanction tor tin- Oiann.-I tunnel, was interviewed by the "Daily Mail's" political rnrrespoiicieilt re the latest proposals. -Mr. Mac Donald stated that it wa- noi only the military coii-iderations. which the Coimnittee for Imperial Defence then considered, there was hlmj a ciircfully prepared economic nicmoraiiduin which inlluenccd the committee V decision as much as the opinions of the military representative*. Mr. Mac Donald explained that befniv ■ ailing the Defence Committee he jiskcii niembers of the Channel Tunnel Committee if they would continue to pie— the tunnel project if the military authorities opposed it. They said that they would not and for that'rea-..ii the pioject. was not pursued.

It was absolutely untrue t.) say th:it he accepted the military ol.joc-ti.ui~ H • personally, had always faYoucd the tunnel ami was MirpiNed n> tin.l tinopposition so stronjr. He was prepared t> participate in any reconsideration ut the subject.