Tunnel from America to Europe.
The best seller among the German novels of the summer season is | "The Tunnel." ' Like so much in ; recent German romantic and meloj dramatic literature, it deals with i New York society life. The story gets its name from the fact that the author, Herr Kellerman, selects for his hero a daredevil young engineer, who conceives the gigantic project of connecting Europe and America with a tunnel. Some of I the newspapers which are reviewing j "The Tunnel," say that it would j probably be as much a mistake to j ridicule the suggestion as it was ito scoff at some of the ideas first launched by Jules Verne and H. G. Wells, which, in the meantime, have become every-day actualities. One commentator has calculated out that the shortest tunnel route between the Old and the New World would lie between Cape Ortegal, Spain, or Brest, France, and Cape Charles, Labrador, distance of about 2,250 miles.
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Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 18 September 1914, Page 2
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161Tunnel from America to Europe. Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 18 September 1914, Page 2
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