ENGINEERING SCHEME

Hokitika Guardian, 21 December 1928, Page 6

ENGINEERING SCHEME

TO LINK LONDON WITH SAHARA

(United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright).

LONDON Dec. 10.

A Paris mess-age states’ Hint 'three' vast engineering schemes are' - being .studied by British, French and Spanish engineers. They include the linking up of the Channel tunnel with a (untie] tinder the Straits of Gibraltar, and a railway across the Sahara, which the engineers claim should have results as important as the Panama Canal, the trans-Siberian and tlie trans-Canadian railways.

'the Spanish Government’s Technical Commission is now preparing a report oil the iCbraltar tunnel, with one ter minus at Algeviras, and the other in Spanish Morocco.

.France's contribution will ho a trailsSaharan railway, costing sixteen Inillions sterling, material for which will lut obtained from Germany, which under the Dawes Plan may reduce the voice by one-third. There are millions of potential labourers available at low way:os, so the experts are of the opinion that the railway will he self-supporting in 2o years. Tt will open up cotton plantations. cattle ranchos, granaries, and will have iminfinsp potentialities if associated with suitable irrigation works. size. Tables give the payments paid and those to he paid. 1 lie series ends wih a subtle “How much longer.” A final query maj'k .swells until it fills the screen.