GIBRALTAR TUNNEL SCHEME.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19814, 30 December 1929, Page 9

GIBRALTAR TUNNEL SCHEME.

WORK TO ITART NIXT MONTH.

. TSLBeeAM-OorTaiOHT.) tiIBIUI/TAK, Beoerobei 97. Colonel Jevenoia, autlwr of the scheme iur a tunnel to connect Europe and Afrkm, hu arrived at Tarii*, accompanied by engineers, and peasexl the plan» for the work, which ia banning in January at Aloaaar Hepuir, in Mpaniah Morocco, opposite Tar if b. The Span tali Government ha* approved of giant* to defray the cost of aoundinga and ahaft sinking. | About a year ago it win reported thai an expert commission of ftptnlsh engln «»ra, Reologiats, and hydrographershad selected a point weal of Zarlfe from which to begin work on the tunnel under the Htrait of Gibraltar. The technical problems of construction were considered not to offer great difficulties, as the tunnel would be only two miles longer than the Himplon, hut acononii eally the enterprise was regarded a* haaardous, as the traffic was hardly e»peeted to prove remunerative until the tunnel was connected with the African railways, and this was unlikely to hap pen for many year*. The Spanish Government had under consideration two scheme*. One prepared by Colonel Don Pedro Javcnois provided for a twenty mile tunnel costing £1(10,000,000. The other, prepared by Colonel Rubin y Belloe. wp.s for a larger tunnel, Imm the Bay of Vaqueros towards Tangier.)