BEHRING STRAITS TUNNEL
PROPOSAL APPROVED BY THE
CZAR,
Prtw Asiocistion-By Tclegrtph-Copjright.
ST. PCThiwjBUBO, June 10. (Received June 10, at 9.48 p.m.) It is now announced that the Czar has ratified a resolution of the Council of Ministers h, f awm - of granting a concossion for the construction of a railway from KaiwK to Bchrhig Straits and a submarine tunnel under Hie straits to America.
rw L A " ci ; ic f n rom l»ny was formed in October last to carry out (h<. construction ot a tunnel railway under Bchi-ing Sfraile from Ataxia to Siberia, but it wjl, slatai early ~, April that■ M. Slolypin. the R««wjii lremier had rejected the proposal. 110 rclurn asliod by the American syndicate tor tlie construction ot the tunnel wa.? a strip of land along ih.< entire Russian railway, from Kansk, which was to bo the terminus of the projected railway, and which Iβ on the Siberian line. Tho krd prant was to be utilised ( or industrial purposes. Tlic syndicate- pr-fessod to be a.ble to find £50,000.000 for the enterprise Hohrin'? Straite at tlie narrowest point— Kcist Cape in Asia and Cane Prince of Wales in America—are .-,0 miles wide, but in the main the water k of little depth
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 13926, 11 June 1907, Page 5
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