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Digging a tunnel under the English Channel from Calais to Dover (22 mi.) is a project discussed since Napoleon's time, repeatedly vetoed by Britain* lest it bring an invader from the Continent. Last week both Britain and France might have devoutly thanked God for such a passageway had it been bombproof. After the abrupt surrender of Belgian King Leopold (see p. 32), some 600,000 survivors of the northern Allied Armies were locked in a triangular trap between the Lys River, the Artois Hills and the North Sea (see map). As 800,000 Germans on the ground...
...actual digging was begun, a mile of tunnel completed at each end before Parliament canceled the work...
...Association, that 7,500 armed German Bund members lurked just across the Detroit River in the U. S., a hundred men of the Essex (tank) regiment were rushed to St. Luke Road barracks on the international line. Special guards were assigned to 24-hour duty at the bridge and tunnel; patrols in the river were increased...
...world is the good reporter's hunting ground. No man can tell where a nose for news may pick up the scent. Stories may break in the White House, the Holland tunnel, the Balkans, the South Pole. Number 10 Downing Street, or 1913 Central Avenue, South Bend...
...timbers in here put in long before this was the U. S. A.!" We walked, waded, crawled & scrambled & slid through the endless tunnels-"there's 500 miles of tunnel in this mountain," the boys said-down 200 feet of sharply sloping rock piles, peered down fearful shafts, heard about the mine's famous ghosts and were mighty glad to get out of there, I tell...