Notes

Fearing that a tunnel under the Channel between France and England would never be built, Engineer Jules Jaeger Satisse thought of another scheme to end Britain's "splendid isolation," and this he sent to the Calais authorities. His plan calls for the building of two double-deck piers, each 261/4 miles long, from France to England. Between the two piers is to be a canal 300 metres wide to enable fast ships to cross in smooth water. The cost of the project was estimated at about $350,000,000.

Down the Champs Elysees, to ihe profound astonishment of Parisiens, came M. le capitaine et Mme. Delingette, in a chugging six-wheel automobile, "bespattered with sand from the Sahara Desert, clay from the Niger, black earth from the Congo and yellow mud and sand from the South African veldt."

The French couple, accompanied by Mechanic Bonnaure, had arrived in Paris from Cape Town, Union of South Africa, where they terminated an automobile tour from Algeria through the heart of Africa.

On the St. Etienne beach, near Hardelot, a short distance south of Boulogne, the sea deposited on the sands the bodies of 13 little boys. That was in the afternoon. Earlier in the day, more than a score of little boys had been sucked out to sea by a strong undercurrent in full view of 17 of their playmates and 4 priests. Priests and others plunged into the waves, rescued 12 boys; only 8 recovered consciousness. Then the sea began to return its little victims.