Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-11-23 | Page 15 | May Eliminate German Routes

proposed to establish ferry communication, communica-tion, between England, Denmark and Sweden. Before the war it took at least thirty five hours to go from London to Copenhagen via Hamburg- and forty-five hours iroiu London to Stockholm."' etRrWOUTES Berlin Railroad Official Fears Entente Plan Prejudicial Preju-dicial to Germany. By PARKE BROWN. (Copyright, 1919: by the Chicago Tribune Company.) BERLIN. Nov. 2. German railroad men have been convinced for some time that the entente intends to eliminate their country from trans-European traffic. Ger-manj's Ger-manj's central position always lias given It a tremendous advantage in this respect. re-spect. But its experts say recent events show everything Is being done to send the postwar rentes around Germany, both to the north and south. A railway official offi-cial said: "The map shows that a straight line runs from Lyon to the north Balkan and south Slav countries across northern Italy. Such a line, since Triest has become Italian, Ital-ian, crosses no Austrian territory. "The existing .French and Italian lines can be extended east over Triest and Agram to Bt lgrade and Bucharest and Odessa, as well as to Athens and Constantinople. Con-stantinople. The French want to connect this up with a line from Geneva to Paris on one side and from Lyon to Bordeaux on the other, thereby drawing travel, not only away from the German ports, but from the Holland ports as well. "Already there are express trains direct di-rect from Paris through the Simplon to Triest and from Bordeaux to Milan. But efforts certainly will be made to restore the old route of the Orient Express, Ex-press, "The line Paris-St rassburg ? Vienna -Bucharest is shorter than the Paris-Milan-Bucharest one, and it avoids crosa- i lng the Alps and using the bad stretcn near Triest. Therefore It is faster and I cheaper. "But a new project of the entente is to go around Germany on tiie north. It is