The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1919-10-17

the engineer. estimates will be ?osshle-I.ondon
will he literally next door to Paris and in direct
touch with all Of Europe all the time
This will mean two three days saved by trav-
elers going from New York to Paris-to say moth
ing of the comfort of those who will escape the
rough channel trip from England to France. when
even the sturtliest sailors frequently suffer from
sickness.
There many offs" about the whole business.
but one cir exists that has attracted lot of at
tenti"n from the public and that is IF the tunnel
Is built it will cost than days cost of
War-;,nd ut most the cost of two days of war;"
One or two hundred million dollars expended
any worthy enterprise these days is considered rs
triIling sum by even the man in the street.
The announcement of the project SUR
prise on this side Of the Atlantic America is
rather disposed to wonder that the tunnel Was NOT
built long ago.
The truth is that when Rleriot flew from French
So" t" English soil just before the war; John Bull
opened his eyes wide and they have not closed
since. His mastery isolation of centuries was
gone in twinkng. Much has happened since
then. The air is tlarkened every day with air
nlveS passing to and from London to Paris. Br-
tannia rules the waves under the league, all
right. but the "waveS" are not all am, no one
knows this better than the lady with the trident.
VIII" is giving much of her time to the new medium
Of communication. But the point is tina, the
quest OF the air has given the tight little island
view of things.
The distance between Dover and CalaiS-a hit
If choppy sea most of the time on the s,,rface-is
I" he .ercolne by tunnel The government leader
in the British house of commons has announced.
1t will be Il joint governmental undertaking to be
started as part of reconstruction \ matter of Il
hundred millions to two nations, innncently be-
Iievel to he bankrupt from the War. is n" barrier.
Tunnel construction is the steel rod in the ce-
m of D4.r Roth + r..
becoming hi!ins,a. The tunnel will help along the
"entente cor,lae' after the war.
As sense Of protection for both nations. the
channel tunnel will be of avail 1t is MAIN
tanned that if the bore had been in existence five
years ago things would have been different and Il
f"ur-year agony would not have fallen upon the
1w" nations.
Fifty years ago when the tunnel project was
declared to be perfectly feasible from engineer.
ing point military men opposed it. 1t is very ANUS
ing reading the debates of those far-of days Eng
land they said could never afford to take chances
with tunnel: the island would be no longer ar.
island; some dark night the enemy would seize the
two ends of the bore. and 10 and behold: England
would he invaded. Strategl>,s condemned the
plan. much to- the discontinue of business.
Before the war broke, when the discovery in
aviation changed the perspective. tunnel recon-
S,ruction was being urged Now as II war measure
anil France and Britain still taking prcca,,.
,on> in the millennium is false aIarm--.he
tunnel is approved by army men. Commercially
there never any question about 1t. France
has sought it consistently for almost a century,
France has vision.
International tunnel construction is t" be the
order nf the day. The nations are to be Joined
closer t"g. Their. The straits of Gibraltar are to he
tunnee,, if plans carry and very likely East ami
Wes,-,he Occident and the Orient-will be Joined
by tunnel under the Bo>p"rus And it is we'll
within the bounds that this continent may be
lnkt, with another continent 10y Rering strait
tunnel. first pr"p"undcd by an early governor Of
Colorado.