NEW MAIL ROUTE TO EUROPE.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2004, 11 March 1914, Page 8

NEW MAIL ROUTE TO EUROPE.

GREEK RAILWAY SCHEME. It is amioiineed that a Ifrencli. efcmpauy has reeoived tho contract for a railway to connect the Urcok rnilv.a,ys with the rest ef Europe. Tiio Greek Uoventmont lia.s for a long timo been endeavouring to forge this link of «m----ttectioa, ai«l swoossivo Greek IV.stnas-ters-Geiiow-l iiavo declared that auee tho railway couneetioa is brfmght about a bid w|U be- niade Jdr tno I'iyhly.rc'. Uiuneratko Awstralsan ar.u Indian mail Time-table- calewiatjims would bo rather premature at this stage; stilt it wouFd apisoar that if the PireaßS is to. become eonaacted by a realty £oi,id faihvay service with tlio Continental capitals, tlio cunAersomo and tioiG-wastiug scheme of luaiWarryiiis via. Brindisi, Naples, m 'fciratito, will become a relie af the past. Cnoning. at a timo when tlie whofo question of "spoeding-wp" tbo-mails is so very ntttcli in "the air, the new project is sure to arouse* general comment. That Greece is badly served in tho .waiter of railways is almost common k'lfwJddge, thoHgJi it is now possible to anticipate tii*: day when Athens will )-o jijined to .the otlier capibils or Europe, by those baiwJs oi steel wlaeli wastitiitc so : e(vectivft a tio in co»:i-.o»cliian civilisation, fho gauge comm.Mi'y vs.ed is the metro (3]ft.), though the important' l'ireans-liarissa railway only ewn» pletod two years ago, aiid, prbjeflred'for 'tiie jwrposo of linking tlreew with the iCuropoan railway system, r.nd ,the Athens-i*weaus electric railway, aro of the standard 4ft. Sjin. gauge It will pcssiWy bo found tltat the European' ccnuoction will be nmlo \'ia Snlo-uika.