Norwich bulletin., 1919-04-04
Cleaned from Foreign Ex-
 changes

It seems a long time since Sir Ed
 ward Watllin made his famous at tempt to capture Joseph Chamber lain for the Channel Tunnel scheme, which is now again definitely in the picture Chamberlain was then Pres ident of the Board of Trade. and it was thought that if he were Sufficf- ently impressed by what had been done already, all might be we'll
 Accordingly great convoy of fin 1 anclers. society people, lawyers, mem l bers of Parliament, MT. Speaker. and 1 the guest of the day was taken down 1 to Dover and introduced in detach- ments into the borings There was 1 lunch. and there was complimentary 1 DOW woWing. but unfortunately the 1 great man was not sufficiently i'm l pressed, and the scheme was shelved. i If We can suppose for the moment i that Chamberlain had been impressed i and James Knowles had not published l in tine Nineteenth Century" an ar l ticle opposing the project, and which l he bOasted killed it forever and ave.
 we should have been able to cut the ! tunnel at a cost of several millions
 less than we must lay out today. ] Experts estimated that 16 million 1 pounds would cover the job. Even this 1 was held to be an outside estimate for | 1t allowed G380 per yard, whereas the 1 Mersey tunnel worked out at e284 per yard, the Mont Ceuis tunnel at
 G224 per yard and the St. Gothard at
 only e142. per yard.
 Continuous rain for over 50 hours is causing great alarm to North Wales farmers. The Dee, Severn and small
 CT rivers are in flood, and in low-ly- ing districts of Merlonethshire and !Denbigshire hundreds of acres are under water. There is considerable mortality amongst young lambs. and farmers at tending Llangollen Fair yesterday say
 that land work is in very back ward state.
 Snow was falling heavily on the up
 lands last night, the mountains
 around Llangolen being thickly coated.
 British eyes look upon General vor
 Lettow Forbeck as far and away the I most romantic figure which the wal
 has produced on the German side. VI 1 followed his career in East Africa
 with a real sporting interest for witt his handful of German soldiers ant two or three thousand natives-he gay, l the British pursuing columns a fin run for their money" Since his return to Berlin the Ger man government has put his popular
 ity to good, use by taking him int their service against the Spartacists
 and now, comes the announcement O his marriage. His British adversarie in East Africa will not begrudge hin
 a long waited happiness.
 It is said that doctrinaI difference . still operate to keep the Congrega , tionalists and Baptists from entertain , ing any idea of joining nnovemen . for uniting the Free Churches bu
 tthere is now little doubt that the Wes : leyans, Primitive Methodists, ant United Metliodists will unite.
 Committees are sitting; the move
 ment. is making tremendous headway l and everything presages a happ, coming together of these three bodie in the next two or three years It vii
 be a biggish aTna1gamation At pres
 ent they have 15,390 chanels, over ;
 million and a half Sunday scholars and S43,20a actual members in Eng land and Wales.
 Three young men at the end of tn, ' compartment kept Up an ami
 mated conversation until the trail made it's first stop, when one left witt Bye bye Jones, sCheerio, Chris Jones turned to his companion ant z said T never knew your name wa Christopher" e
 Neither is it." said the other. ; Then why Chris?''
 7 Oh" was the reply. that is t nickname. Of all our crowd. wa V the only one minus wings. when W