In the presence of the Kaiser, nit now German battleship, Prince Regent Luitpold Las been launched .at Kiel. Prince Ludwig, who represented the Prince Regent of Baa-aria, ‘expressed the conviction that the promt ship which was about- to take the water would, whether in peace—which God long -preserve—or in war— which Germans did not fear —always prove herself worthy of the exalted Prince whose name she boreAnother stage of a remarkable engineering feat is accomplished. The tunnel continuing the Jungfrau Railway from the Eismeer station to the Jungfrau Joch (saddle), which is 11,--100 feet above sea lived. was pierced. The tunnel emerges at the Jungfrau Jocli, in the midst of glaciers, only about 2,oooi’t-. below the summit of the mountain (13,609 ft.). The building of the railway was begun sixteen years ago, '•'and - is expected to reach the summit of tho Jungfrau in about three years from now. 'This is the third stage of the enterprise.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3497, 12 April 1912, Page 3
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