ALL RED ROUTE.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 32, 1 November 1907, Page 7

ALL RED ROUTE.

SIR JAS. MILLS SPEAKS. ENGLAND TO SYDNEY IN 26 OR 28 DAYS. VIA IRELAND. BX ' IELEGBAPII—rr.ESS ASSOCIATION— COI'TBIGHT. (Rec. Oct. 31, midnight.) .-. . Melbourne, October 31. Sir Jas. Mills, managing director of the Union Company, interviewed hero, said that during his visit homo he had endeavoured to have a faster stoafn service instituted between England and Australia, via Canada arid Now Zealand. There was every prospect that his efforts would be successful, and of tho timo for tho through passage from England to Sydney being reduced to twentysix or twenty-eight (lays. NEW IRISH RAILWAY. A schemo was, ho said, being prepared by an English syndicato to lay before tho Imperial Government for a fast service via tbo All Red route. Ho was not at liberty to say whether tho Union Company was connected with the syndicate The idc-a was to construct a railway across Ireland', to'Bincksod. Bay, in Mayo, on tho west coast of Ireland.' Tho other Irish torminal port would bo connected by a steamer forry sorvic's — the steamers transporting bodily both train and passengers — with a point' in- Scotland. PACIFIC STEAMERS. Steamers would run from Blacksod Bay to Halifax, in Nova Scotia, thenco thero would bo a fa3t improved railway service to Vancouver. From Vancouver tho sorvico would bo by a faster type of .steamers than thoso. at- present employed on the run to Australia. If tho service was to bo continued as at present, the Union Company Wero haying four steamers built: One was of tho Marama typo, but a thousand tons larger. The distances and times claimed for the scheme are:— . . London to Blacksod Bay ; (Ireland) 681 miles, H hours via Larne. Blacksod Bay to Halifax, 2100 miles 3J days (as against Liverpool to New York, 3025 miles, Si days). Halifax to.Montreal, 836 miles, 18 hours. Ciaiu of 2 or 3 days as agiiiust existing services. ' i Tho leading features of this great project for dwarfing the Atlantic are said to bo as follows:— ' . . 1. Tho establishment of a service of fast twouty-fivo knot steamers, capable of making tho voyage from the Irish coast to Halifax m_ Canada. : iii. three ami. a half days, 2. The construction of new railways to connect (he point .selected on tho Irish coast with the. existing Irish system; The railways to be built to permit of a speed with passenger sprvico of Dfty miles an hour. 3. Tho' establishment of train ferries carrying passengers and rodils trains between tho Irish, uud Scotch or English ports, so that passengers have not to change carriages, or bulk to. bo broken with goods. Bincksod, Bay. which will have to bo connected up by railway, is dewvinpd n« a magns flcen.t harbour.and geographically the' nearest point in tho United Kiujjilom to utnaua.-