6 DECEMBER 1924, Page 3

* * * * The need for alternative transport facilities

in London was further emphasized on Monday by Sir William Joynson-Hicks, the Home Secretary, in a speech at the opening of 'the reconstructed Tube which will now be called the City Railway. This is a fine new enterprise, on -which we must congratulate Lord Ashfield and his ever active company. His is a monopoly of which no one can complain. And Lord Ashfield himself is in the best tradition Of benevolent despots. Sir William Joynson-Hielcs said that the problem of London traffic was causing him many sleepless nights, and that he looked forward to a great new system of Tubes under Central London,