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Show ALPS NOW PIERCED BY THIRD TUNNEL New. Channel" Nine HUes in Length and Cost ' ; ; .$20,000,000. ! - BERNE.- Mwitserlatbd. M h 1-Th i final otetnictkm to th loetKhberv tun-ni tun-ni throunh th Brni AIim waa p.errr4 by h labomra at S:VJ o'clock thia uura 1ns aftr flva and a half yearn' ipm nl the xpnditur of a!,0(N).Wi. Th tunnel. whUh la tha third lnirat In fceurope. meaaures approximattlr nln mll;a. , - j.' With the romp1tton of tha Loetvh-hera; Loetvh-hera; tunnM, which waa planned to vlve th flfmploa tunne. rmiiwav' )in a ritrt conn-rtkB - with the -, railways which tra vena Switzerland from north to muth. thera will ba . dlract Muto from Milan to gjerr and trvenoa to Caiala and Btjntaxrie. Thw i lata lie front Milan vo Caiiua by thia roule will ha a boat 1t mlLf, , or rreairly eighty mllea laa than the axial Insr rota. Tha tunnel will ba doubt tracked throughout. ' |