UNDERSEA TUNNEL
PIERCED IN JAPAN. HEAVY COST IN LIVES. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, Noon.) TOKIO, July 10. The Railways Minister, Mr Ogawa, blasted the last midway tube wall of an undersea tunnel linking Shimonoseki and Moji. The project took five years and cost the lives of thirteen engineers and many labourers and a sum of 25 million, yen. The railway will be opened in April, 1942.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 July 1941, Page 6
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