UNDERSEA TUNNEL
LINKING HONG KONG TO MAINLAND GOVERNMENT PLANS SCHEME The Hong-Kong Government is studying a project to link the island with the mainland by a traffic tunnel similar to the Holland tubes, which join Manhattan Island to New Jersey. Between. Hong-Kong and Kowloon, its mainland suburb, lies a threequarter mile wide strait, which is Hong-Kong Harbour, crossed by an inadequate ferry service, which is usually suspended during the typhoons which frequent this coast. Engineers estimate that the tunnel need not be deeper than some sections of the London “underground.** Such an undertaking, first of its kind in the Far East, would relieve the congestion of Hong-Kong and promote the already rapid growth of Kowloon and other towns in British territory on the mainland.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 449, 3 September 1928, Page 14
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124UNDERSEA TUNNEL Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 449, 3 September 1928, Page 14
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