Ogden Daily Standard | 1919-04-04 | Page 3 | English Channel Tunnel is a Century Old Plan

English Channel II Tunnel Is a , Century-old Plan 1 i LOXDfiX, March 1-1 Construction of a tunnel under the English channel j to connect England and France which, (j I according to government announce -I ments. will soon begin, is a century-old scheme broached to Napoleon by the I (Celebrated French engineer Mathieu. Napoleon favored it but nothing came of the plan owing to war and Napol-jW Napol-jW eon's downfall. It was not until N'a-poleon N'a-poleon III came to the French throne MB that artur.1 proiiminnrv work was un tm dertaken, wiih the approval of the iB I'rmch ruler and Queen Victoria. Then came the Franco -Prussian war and the scheme again lapsed. Shortly WM after thai war a convention was slgn-B- ed hrtween France and England set b the conditions under which K the tunnel should be constructed. n t p-tu-c tmgnah side boring operations I Hrere begun near Dover at a depth of I B60 feet and a seven foot tunnel was I . bored for a distance of 2.000 yards. I Strong opposition on grounds of mili-ary mili-ary strategy developed in the Bri-tish Bri-tish parliament against the project ! and again it was dropped.