THE CHANNEL TUNNEL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15521, 31 January 1914, Page 11

THE CHANNEL TUNNEL.

MAKING FOR PERPETUAL PEACE

[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.} London, December 19. The New Zealander who is member for Yarmouth, Mr. A. Fell, is the leading cliampion of the scheme for constructing a tunnel under the Channel to France. In a paper before the Royal Society of Arts he said the French railway gauge was fixed by English engineers. During the Franco-Prussian war the South-Eastern, Railway lent rolling stock to the French Northern Railway Company, and there were French waggons running at the present time on the Staffordshire Railway. "The British Islands," said Mr. Fell "are unknown land to the Continent. Foreigners rarely visit them except on business, and foreign ladies never travel in England. They cannot come to London, the lake country; the Scottish Highlands, or our splendid golf links and seaside resorts." Air. Fell expressed the hope that the tunnel would be begun in two years' time. England had been at peace with France for 98 years, and, he added, "it will be a happy augury if the centennial year of peace should be signalised by the King of this country and the President of France_ simultaneously cutting at Dover and Calais the first sod of the link between the two countries which should, more than anything we can imagine, help to make that peace a perpetual one."