LONDON TO CAPETOWN.
THE GIBRALTAR TUNNEL.
(RHUTER'S TELEGRAM.)
PARIS, 11th July. The Orleans Railway Company has applied for a concession ,}*> construct a tun' nel under the.Strait or Gibraltar, in furtherance of a scheme to ran a railway from Paris to Dakar. The execution of this scheme -would ultimately establish railway communication between London and Capetown, when the Channel tunnel is built.
[Dakar is a fortified port in the French African colony of Senegal, on a fine har,bour at the extreme point of Cape Verde.. It is the administrative seat .of the French; possessions of Western Africa.] :
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Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 12, 13 July 1918, Page 7
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96LONDON TO CAPETOWN. Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 12, 13 July 1918, Page 7
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