European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 03, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Editor s note it was hooted As Folly when England. Ard France signed a treaty permitting the digging of two Tran tunnels underneath the engish Channel which a a separates the two countries. Now the digging is almost completed and High Speed trams Are expected to Start shuttling Between pans and London in 1993. That s not Good news for people to the ferryboat business. -. A a a. A a a. A. 1 1 by Patrick Mcdowell associated press. V. R. N a Clear Day one really can see the White. Cliffs of Dover. They glitter on the far Side of the English Channel a Beacon for ferries a. A crisscrossing the 23 Miles of water separating England from France. A a a a. There Are no vistas sea Breeze or Sunshine for the Ien toiling .140 feet underneath the Bluffs at a a the France to finish the Channel Tunnel a. Ray known As the Channel a the worlds biggest action protect. Only color Here is mud Gray the Only Light from sum bulbs Strung along the gloomy passages g under the sea to another country. It a. In Here its a different world Quot remarks 42-year-Neler Louis Boutin to a reporter still trying to make / nos in the darkness. Quot prehistoric. We find a lot of some i keep some i throw . /. Ted As Folly when the British and French  ments signed a treaty to build them in 1985, the undersea tunnels connecting this tourist Village with tone England Are nearly finished. Quot Quot a. Maintenance Tunnel was completed on dec i a. A Keg event that gave Britain its first land link rope  last ice age 8.000 years  ,. V workers from England and France expect to fully two Mam rail tunnels by late june they will then k for High Speed trains that will carry passengers d heavy trucks from. Paris Tolondo in.3vt hours sport please Quot a customs officer demands of tiers., a. A a -. A v Mai a snal old foul Fos go a the foil Hist with a Joir a Lay Ca sri a worker walks one of the main tunnels. A a a yes. Passports. Ever since the service Tunnel was completed last year a daring traveler could theoretically walk underground across the Border. One German youth has already been caught trying. A a. When the trains Start rolling in mid-1993, the nearby. A ferry port of Calais will be threatened with the loss of. A passengers. A.  �?�-.-�. A a. A a a a Quot i Hope the Tunnel closes this place Down Quot says. A Michael Ellison. 32, a London banker stranded in the tatty ferry terminal after missing his boat. Quot what an awful  a but a Way of life will end at san Gatte Normal population  840, Home for the last few years to 5,000 mud spattered a roughnecks wbo�?o9etied centuries of Anglo French a a a a distrust. They labor in subterranean vaults of steel. Concrete . Mud Fly s gone Par Laid covers a ,. Everything. Quot \. A the. Site s. Noad quartos its atop a  Wie Shaft dug 230 foot straight Down into it to san Gatte Cliffs the tunnels Cross it at the j40 loot Huik -. ,. The Shaft which took a year of a Ltd before Woik even started on the Tram tunnels serves As the loading port. An a  Ike Whoso used Tor Container ships Oweis eau in Man a into the Chuhei. Of workshop a a. A. A next to the pit stands a control Otbo dined Edh video screens  and telephones it looks like a. Command Center Tor. A Nasa space launch. A a a from Here specialists Monitor electricity and air flow. V a into the Tunnel. They can dispatch Temei ency medical teams or firefighting Crews at  sign of an accident.,. A Quot fire  Ihms we re most Arnid of a says William a  spokesman for eur Tunnel the. Anglo  consortium that will run the Tunnel. We  in the military it we have to 1., a a a eight Mon have been killed  began. A elevators lower the workers into a vast poorly lit a a Cavern that is the Hub of underground operations a Loyer to the three tunnels themselves that shoot Olf North and. South into utter blackness. A a a workers have their private subway tiny narrow gauge service trains that trundle them 22 at a time Down the. A a a tunnels to the digging machines. Magnesium lights barely Dent a gloom deepened by a Fine Mist. Train sirens and enormous machinery Emit an a -infernal.din. Everything smells of mud or grease but mostly mud _ a after depositing the. Workers at he head of the Tunnel a the trams Tow Back carloads of  Rock Hen out of the seabed 565,000 cubic feet a Day. A the crud is dumped into five Iron churns and mixed. With water from there the slurry is pumped  a dam. Above ground the water is separate from  and. A used again a Miles Down the Tunnel shafts 1,250don Tunnel Boring machines three stories High and  and it Quot Cather me grind away at Blue Marl the to logic name a a a continued on Pago 16 m 1 r i Tunnel s a. Trains Whf carry. Yaw cites and a amp eat Gene through two tunnels. A by / of teat i afr i Britain Ireland enlarged below kill take 35 minutes. During the trip passengers their vehicles or stroll about the shuttle trains. English Channel France a above Chalk Cliffs Rise above the Bush Rhunnell work site in Dover England. Left a Brit sift employee works beneath a Banner shortly before the first breakthrough in the service Tunnel in late 1990. Of it the stars and stripes Page 15