Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-08-02
TUNNEL BENEATH
 ENGLISH CHANNEL England and France Will Join in Constructing Sub
 terranean Passage.
HEAT CAUSES DUELS
In One of Four Held Recently One of the Participants Came Near Being Wounded by Bullet, an Unprece.
 dented Occurrence.
(By La Raconteuse.)

Paris, August 1.-Apparently the tunnel beneath the English channel which divides England from France is not the wild cat scheme that we have been led to suppose. I learn this week that a number of French mem- bers' of the senate have agreed to vis- it London to confer with members of the English parliament on the subject This looks like business.
 NJ. Charles Leboucq, deputy for Paris, who has received the invita- ton, says that in his opinion the pro- ject is near realization. In France he says, public opinion is in favor of the tunnel. He points out it's advan- tagcs to both countries, and scouts the idea that it could be used by eith- CT nation as a means of attack.
 In view of the propaganda now be- ing undertaken in France, adds the deputy. there is little doubt that con- siderable progress will be made in breaking down opposition in England.
 The means of transit today, is, of course, by steamship and the journey of about 21 miles, usually takes from ono and a half to two hours.
 Should the tunnel ever become an accomplished fact, the crossing would be reduced to something under half an hour and would dispense with the tedious waste of time entailed in the trans-shipment of baggage from boat to train.
 Duelist Nearly Hurt.
 Probably due to the heat and the consequent irritation, there seems to have been a wave of ill-tcmper in Paris of late, and I should say that the number of political, social and other duels we have had constitute d record. And in one of them some- one very nearly got hurt He cscap- ed only by the mercst chance, the like ,I which has not been known for half a century. c, ,H.I, ,...'-e' it vas an extra ordinary thing that he even near. '. got hurt, because pistol duels are us uaIly absolute farces.
 Pistol duels arc fought with very primitive weapons, which are loaded in quite medieval way-frst with the mullet and then with the charge of powder (generally smalD, which is driven home with three taps of ham, mer. In one famous duel, half a cen t,ry ago, the seconds who were prac- tical jokers, loaded the pistols with nothing more lethal than chockchaf- CTS. When the trembling duelists- both fat bankers--pointed, or rather tried to point, their weapons. the cockchafers suddenly appeared at the ends of the barrels and flew away. Seconds and principals then adjourn cd to lunch, where all grgesdu were washed out and down in a burgundy.
 But to get back to the duel of last week. The conditions were four French pistol duels, very severe-two shots to be exchanged at twenty metres instead of the regulation twen- ty-ive. The duclists---M. Rene Quin- ton, president of the Aerial league, and inventor of the salt water injec- tion cure, and M Edouard Julia, a journalist-fired almost simultaneous ly. M. Quinton's bullet went wide, but M. Julias struck his opponents pistol on the but and glanced off harmlessly. The chroniclers of duel- ing have to hark back half century to parallel the occurrence.