CHANNEL TUNNEL ABANDONED
STATEMENT BY MR. MACDONALD LONDON, July 7. In the House of Commons Mr. MacDonald announced that the Government had decided against the construction of the Channel Tunnel. He declared that there was absolutely no foundation whatever for the storm which had arisen regarding the invitation to the Conference on July 16. and pointed out that the communications made to Italy, Japan, the United States and Belgiuli were merely a repetition of the British suggestions concerning the task at the forthcoming Conference, which already had been submitted to and fully discussed by the Belgian Minister and M. Herriot at Chequers. These suggestions were simultaneously embodied for the purposes of record in a semi-official communication from the permanent head of the Foreign Office to the permanent head of the French Foreign Office. No communication had been made by or oa behalf of the British Government to the German Government. This communication will be published with a lengthier one later.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 19057, 9 July 1924, Page 11
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160CHANNEL TUNNEL ABANDONED Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 19057, 9 July 1924, Page 11
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