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Show TUBE VERSUS TUNNEL. Schemes for the I'assage uf Hallway Trains I nder the Ilrltlsh Channel. London, Nov. 28. Special. J It is not improbable that the usual attempts will be made iu this session to pass the channel tunnel bill through tho house of commons. Anotherscheme, the tube plan, promoted by Sir Edward Reed, has now taken a very prominent position. posi-tion. It has been warmly taken up 00 the French side, where sullicient capital has been promised to place it on a practicable prac-ticable footing. Sir Edward's idea is to construct a steel tube largo enough to admit the passage of a railway train. This, by an ingenious arrangement, will rest on the bottom of the channel, and would be, in effect, a metal tunnel, without the disadvautago of being dug below the land level. Sir Edward Watkin regards his own tunnel scheme simply as a means of communication with the continent and a feeder for the South-Eastern railway system. If ho could get traffic through a tube instead of through a tunnel he would adopt the rival scheme, as what he desires is the increased traffic and not glory for himself. him-self. Therefore he has concluded not to offer any opposition to Sir Edward Reed's project. It is claimed for the tube scheme that it is free from those objections on the part of the military authorities, which have operated powerfully pow-erfully to retard the progress of tho channel tunnel. |