A MONT BLANC TUNNEL.
M. Gautbier, French Minister of Fublio Works, has just announced that he has a great scheme in hand nothing less than a tunnel under Mont Blanc. France has been fearing for a long time that, when the Simplon Tunnel is opened, nearly all tbe traffio through Switzerland from the north of Europe to Italy, and vice versa, will go either by that route or by the St Gothard, thus avoiding France altogether. TUg idea of the Minister is to tunnel under the Col de la Faucillle, make a direct line from Dijon to Geneva, saving a good deal of time on the present route by Macon and Bourg, and then to continue the line from Geneva underneath Mont Blanc to Aosta and Turin. Of course, there are numberless difficulties to overcome. The cost of the line to Geneva alone would be between four and five millions sterling. But M. Gauthier is confident of ultimate suocess. It would certainly be a great work. Its very immensity is in its favour, so far as the public is concerned. It has appealed already to the quick Parisian imagination.
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Feilding Star, Volume XXVII, Issue 113, 8 December 1905, Page 2
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189A MONT BLANC TUNNEL. Feilding Star, Volume XXVII, Issue 113, 8 December 1905, Page 2
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