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Show Anglo-Irish Tunnel Again Discussed. For the last fifty years the proposal to construct a tunnel between England Eng-land and Ireland has been discussed. It is again receiving some attention, suggested by political and military developments de-velopments within the lust few weeks. The tunnel, as un international utility, would shorten the journey to the United States and Canada by 48 hours, and would only cost ?80,000,000. Between the coast of Wigtownshire on one side and those of Antrim and Down on the other there lay at one time a loch about 25 miles long, and varying from 000 to 900 feet in depth, and this loch, known to geologists as Beaufort's Dyke, still lies beneath the waters of the North Channel. Curiously enough, it is beneath this loch, which lies north and south about midway between the Irish and Scottish .coasts, that it is proposed to run the tuunei. |