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The Brussels Post, 1919-3-20, Page 7BORING ENGLISH C1LANNEL TUNNEL WILL BE GREATEST ENGINEER- ING ENTERPRISE. WHII Connect the Dover -London With the Calais -Paris Ry. and cost About $50,000,000. Already plans are being prepared for the carrying out of one of the greatest engineering enterprises ever undertaken by man --the boring of a tunnel to connect France with Eng- land -and it will doubtlees be begun as soon as the mess of war has been cleaned up, Tho digging of such a tunnel be- neath the British Channel, making direct undersea _communication be- tween Dover and Calais have been ad- vocated for a century. Beginnings of it were actually made a few years ago at both ends. But the project was defeated by the fear of conservative Britishers lest the hole under the strait be used by the French, in case of war, for an invasion of England. Of course, this was a foolish idea; for nothing could be easier in 00 emer- gency than to block the tunnel, or oven to blow up a portion of it, ren- dering it impassable. The great war, however, has taught a lesson. If the tunnel had existed, troops and supplies eouid'have been sent through it from England to France in an endless stream, safe from submarines or other enemy at- tack, while releasing conch -needed slips for other purposes. Wounded and sick soldiers would have hem car- ried back by the same route without peril from the murderous Hun. Floor of Solid Chalk. Incidentally -and by no means of least importance - England would have been wholly safe from thb star- vation which the Tduns hoped to in- flict upon her by the operations of their submarines, - The mistake is not to be perpetua- ted. The tunnel is to be dug, and in aectrdance with plans long ago ade- qua ciy developed --though, presum- ably, with some modifications. If the floor of tbi 0hannel were of soft material -say, of silt, such as of- ten furnishes the make-up of river bottoms to a great dearth --tire engi- neering problem Involved might be one of utmost difficulty. But, happily, the fact is quit() otherwise, Currents flowing- between the North Sea and the Atlantic keep the bottom of the strait scoured clean, and its floor is of solid cholic -stuff almost imper- vious to water and easy to bore through. This chalk stratum is more than 200 feet thick The distance from. Dover to Calais is only twenty-two miles. But actual- ly the tunnel will be thirty-two miles long, connecting the Dover -London railway with the Calais -Paris railway, and thus enabling a passenger to get aboard a train in the British capital and travel direct to Paris, dismount- ing from the coach at the station in that city. Electric locomotives will do the hauling. It is estimated that not more than four years will be required to com- plete the project, digging from both ends, The total cost is reckoned at $80,. 00 ,000, and the expectation is that the investment will yield at least 6 Per cent. per annum. ut. MARVELLOUS SURGERY Making Use of Toes as Fingers and Thumb. Some marvellous cases of the sur- gical art are described in the Medi- cal Supplement, compiled by the Medical Research Committee, and is- sued by the British War Office. In one case a soldier had his thumb shot away, and, as the hand woulflr be almost useless without it, the ''surgeon substituted the man's own big toe for the lost thumb. In another similar case the thumb was replaced by the second toe. "The patients obtained in this way move able thumbs that in every respect were practically useful and natural in appearance, especially in the case of the great toe, since this was ex- ceptionally small and dexterous." Even more wonderful was the re- placement of four lost finger's by fort' toes. The toes were partly cu 1t through, and •the stump of the hand being attached, the periosteum (the fibrous tisseo that covers the bones) of the toes was SOWlt to that of the finger stumps, The tendons, soft Parts and skin were also sewn to- gether, and then the hand and foot Were fixed in ,plaster of Paris. For a month the patient lay in a very uncomfortable position. At the end of that time the toes were completely separated from the foot, and seen after the patient had a useful hand. At the same time he could wake almost as well as ever "with a strong anti freely niovabe great toe." 'When there :is no winter there can be too springy, The gloom is the measuco of the light, -Ernest Thompson Selen.. The i 'lis of the Indian Mead d ree(t ilxperiment.11 Farm show that With eiroper care and attention a number :if kinds of bush fruits can be grown snceosefully on the Western prairie lend. 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The following stories are taken from records now being compiled by the Canadian Government regarding the treatment of prisoners in German camps: - Pte. A. J. Debenham, 4th Canadians. was captured June 2nd, '1916. FIe was put to work at the Babcock and Wil - cocks boiler works. On one occasion T1s work did not satisfy the authori- ties, and lie was ordered to do two hours' overtime. He refused, and was attacked by a sentry with his rifle and by a sergeant with his sheathed sword. The civilian overseer seized yin by the throat and kicked him about the body, laying him out. .At 4.50 o'clock one Sunday morning in April, Pte. F. Ferns, of No, 2 Cana- dian Tunnelling Company, was order- ed to do the work of a Gerona civil- ian as well as his own, and he re- fused. Two minutes afterwards ho was struck on the back with a hard- wood bludgeon, the effects of which he felt for a long tiros. iIo was put on double shifts. Iie saw imperials forced to work when they were phy- sically unlit, and one of them he saw become insane through this treat- ment. Slept in Wet Beds. Pte. II. I'rotwell, 7th Batt., said that an officer who inspected the barracks .at Frfedrichfeld camp complained of the condition in whieh they were kept, and as punishment ordered the beds to be put out 111 the square outside at 6 a.m. This meant rising at 4 a.m., and in bad weather the beds were soolced, and at night it meant sleeping in wet beds. Several sten who had suffered from influenza died as 0 result. Pte. C. W. Greer, of the 76th, came from an Ontario village. At Lille the barracks in which ho was imprisoned were so crowded that there was no room to lie down, and it was so cold that the men could only sleep through sheer 'exhaustion. There was no ven- tilation. Tho only light was from two dirty little windows, high up. The only sanitary convenience was a bar- rel in the corner of the room which, was left unemptied for days, Rush for Bread, "My head ached most of the time I was in." says Pte. Greer. "I worked on a railroad behind the lines for six weeks. 'We had to get up at four o'clock and starch for two hours. We got back at 7 p.m. All the food we had was a little bit of black bread about the size of a loan's fist every evening, and a mess -tin lid full of tur- nip and cabbage soup. One day I fell from exhaustion while on the march, T.500.3,k .�. 1' lvnl o.,i 0 D els' ed If dour usual food doesi digest easill an at, wan'. the satisfaction of i read 4o e±l: cereal dish that will provide easily dicfest- ible 'nourish- ment at low cost, 1rj Grdpe:N - , ts CIMDS FOOD 50550 LUCenee 110. 10 ED, 7. ISSUE 11-90. A TRAIL ACROSS THE ROCKIES The firet trip over the Simpson Pass through the Canadian Pacific Rockies was made by Sir George Simpson, Governor of the Hudson's Bay Com- pany, in 1841, and formed part of the first recorded overland tour round the world, that is to say across the North American Continent, and 1»' way of Siberia and Russia, occupying about nine months, and the subject of con- siderable literature, Jim Brewster, the famous guide and outfitter at Banff, discovered the fallen tree on the sum- mit of the Pass on which the travel- lers left their record. Fired by the ambition to cross this pass, I set out one day last summer, with two guides, ten ponies and camp- ing outfit and supplies for six or seven days. Jim Brewster sent these over from Banff to Invermere at the head- waters of the Columbia Valley, where I had promised to wait for them. Close to Invernlere are the remains of Kootenai House, an outpost of the Nor' West Trading Company estab- lished by David Thompson in 1808, Now there is a comfortable little tourist hotel, much appreciated - by motorists who use the excellent Gov- ernment road through the Upper Columbia Valley. On our first day's ride we stopped off for a swim at the hot radium -water springs of Sinclair Canyon, whore St. John Harmsworth, brother of the famous Lord Northcliffe, and himself proprietor of the still more famous Perrier water, built a concrete bath- ing pool under the springs which pours its naturally warm water out of the rock. At night wo found shelter in a homesteader's cabin, the owner of which was away at the war and hospitable enough to leave the latch loose. Next day we were in the forests of the Kootenay -u wonderful resort for big game, judging by the tracks we saw and the animals we even met -two black bear and a dicer on the trail with moose paths worn deep like small Devonshire lanes along the meadows beside the river. The I(ootenay River had a rather bad reputation. Two parties were drowned in the attempt to make the crossing at the same time last year, and we ourselves had been warned to postpone our trip. However, we found a ford where we did not even have to swim our horses, and next day were on :the banks of the Vermil- lion River. Into the Vermillion pours the raging torrent of the Simpson, which itself is fed from the melting glaciers of the snow -clad Rockies high above. At least one cyclone seemed to have swept down its valley, and the river itself had washed away several corners so that our trail had to be made, or found anew on many a mile. "About seven hours of hard work brought us to the height of land, the hinge as it were between the eastern and western waters. We breakfasted on tho level isthmus, which slid not exceed fourteen paces in width, filling our kettles for this one lonely meal at once from the crystal sources of the Columbia and the Saskatchewan, while these willing feeders of two op- posite oceans, murmuring over their bods of mossy stones, as if to bid each other a long farewell, could hardly fail to attune our minds to the sublimity of the scene, "But between these kindred foun- tains, the common progeny of the same snow wreaths. there was this remarkable difference of temperature that the source of the Columbia showed 40 degrees, while that of the Saskatchewan raised the mercury to 611/ degrees, the thermometer mean- while striking as high as 71 degrees in the shade, "From thevicinity of perpetual snow, we estimated the elevation of the height of land to be seven or eight thousand feet above the level of the sea, while the surrounding peaks ap- peared to rise nearly half that alti- tude above our heads." We ourselves found the snow all gone and our horses found sweet and ample pasture on an Alpine meadow. As we looked back from the Great Divide upon the mountains of the Sel- kirks, we had as fine a panorama as any artist could desire -ragged out- lines capped and fringed with perpet- ual snow. The fishing, I may say in passing, which one gets on such a trip, is of the very best. Every creek, every pool seems to be stocked with trout, all inquisitive about the nature of the fly. Brown Hackle and Gray Hackie are always deadly. The red flies such as Parmaehene Belle do not seem to take so well in these waters. There were both Dolly Varden and Steel - head to our credit on the Simpson, averaging a little Over a pound. In the Kootenay the trout ran up to two and three pounds and were very game, though shy in the middle of the day.- 3, ay;3, M. G. and was carried to the side of the road and laid upon the grass by a couple of my companious. Sometimes the French women would offer us broad, and the Germans would drive them off with their rifles. Once a French woman asked if we could not atop to have some coffee, and the guard said "Nicht cafe fur schwein." The French used to leave bits of bread for us along the road, at the foot of telegraph poles, and I have seen half a dozen sten break ranks and rush for a piece of bread, and the guards would follow them and hit them with all their might on the head with their rifle butts." Sick, Knocked Down. Pte. W. Morrison, 4111 C.MJ2., was captured on June 211(1, 1916. The 201- lowiug February he poisoned his in- dex linger and reported sick. He was told to continue work, and he refused, He was knocked down by two sen- tries, and forced to return to work, The next clay he reported sick again, and was again knocked down. The third clay he was allowed to rest in barracks. The fourth day he was taken to northland Hospital, but was refused admittance by the abbot. It was seven days before he was admit- ted to another hosopital. Only local anaesthetics wore used during the operation, which was intensely pain- ful. Paper bandages wore supplied, and were changed only every four days. A sister cut the cord of his fin- ger w11110 treating it, and laughed after doing it. The finger is now use- less. In Terrible Condition. Corp. i1,110Charles, M,D„ 4th C,01.1.., tells of the condition of the wounded who cants into camp at• Lotgeusalza, fromSarah n 7t1 to April last I1 ou live to six'hundred came in, and their condition was terrible. Only a few--- fronl ten to fifteen per cent, -had had any kind of medical treatment. Some had been lying 111 hovels behind the lines for a month, and in many cases gangrene had set in. Their clothing and wounds stank. "We burled on all average five or l . he - said, "Tl six every day," "They were attention for two weeks t given no tt and then imete Russian Jew orderlies at- tended to them. Seventy-five per cont. of them were walking cases, but they were mu weals that we had to help theta along. They had no blank- ets." lankets." In this camp there were some two thousand Belgian civilians who were literally being starved t o death. They e Y died at the rate of about twelve a day. Their bodies were cut up by medical students, and they wore piled in a common grave, stark naked. The story of a Highlander who took punishment rather that part with his kit, is that of Pte. G. G. Sawyer. of the 13th Battalion. On his refusal to part with his kilt, he was given twen- ty-eight days' confinement. He was again ordered to put on trousers, and did another twenty-eight days for an- other refusal. Ile was then told,that he was going to be medically ex- amined, and was ordered to strip. When he had his clothes off, one of the guards snatched the kilt and throw it out of the window. A pair of trousers was then given him. 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In the discussion that has been go- ing on concerning the longest word; in the English language, the latest! candidate is "antitrausubstantiation- alistically," which easily outruns "holoriflcabilitudinity" and "anthro- pomo'phologieally." - Such words, however, are more likely to have been used by an individinal, as the word "antidises'k(blishreentanianiaun" is said to have been used by Archbishop - Benson, than to have got permanent -I ly lodged hi the dictionary, Where Pat Was. In a small village in Ireland the soldier .met revillage mother of a the priest, who asked her if she had had bad news. "Store, I have," she said "Pat has been Wiled." "Oh, I am sorry," said the priest. "Did you receive word" from the Wm: Office?" "No," she said, "I received word front himself," The priest looked perplexed, lexed and ?" "But howr' t said r s '1tat. "Sero, she said, "here is the Tot- ter; reed it for yourself." The letter said, "Dear Mother ---I ant now in the Holy Land," WESTMINSTER ABBEY BELLS. Celebrated Victory Over Spanish Ar- mada, and Will Ring Hun Defeat, The rix old bells of Westminster Abbey WM being metered and aug- mented to take part in the celebration that will follow the signing of peace. The old bells arc of great historic Interest. All ex"ept the treble were east at the old 1Vbltnellapel Bell Foun- dry -the tenor, weighing 11/44 tons, In 1738, the fifth in 12118, the fourth and second in 1143, and the third in 1683. The treble was cast probably at the end of the thirteenth or the begiiluiug of the fourteenth century, and must therefore have rung out to celebrate the great victory over the Spanish Ar- mada in 1688. It is interesting to note that the Whitechapel Foundry, which has been working continuously since 1670, has been entrusted with the restoration work and the casting of the new belle. 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