19 MARCH 1910, Page 3

On Wednesday the Associated Chambers of Commerce decided to support

the proposal to establish a Channel train- ferry. We have no means of knowing whether in its present form the proposal is definite enough to lay before Parliament, but we are quite convinced that a train-ferry across the Channel is feasible, and moreover highly desirable. As the Paris correspondent of the Daily Mail points out, the traveller from Berlin to Copenhagen can go to bed in the train at Berlin and wake up at Copenhagen, having crossed twenty- six miles of the Baltic during the night. We all know what a very different experience it is to cross the Channel to France by night. There is, in our opinion, just as much reason for having a Channel ferry as there is for not having a Channel tunnel