... The Channel Tunnel >4 Jules Verne story that came true all but the last chapter By Walter Shepherd THE pioneering work on the Channel Tunnel has all been done, and were its fantastic story not true it might well have come from the pen of Jules Verne. The original conception, now almost one hundred and fifty years old, was itself a theme for a scientific romance, and the subsequent planning of ...

... FRANCE'S FAILURE A Look Back and a Look Forward Another year Another deadly blow Another mighty Empire overthrown And we are left or shall be left, alone. The last that dare to struggle with the foe. 'Tis well! from this day forward we shall know That in ourselves our safety must be sought, That by our own right hands it must be wrought; That we must stand unpropped, or be laid low. 0 dastard ...