Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 237, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1916 — LINK GREECE WITH EUROPE [ARTICLE]

LINK GREECE WITH EUROPE

Last Strip of Line Necessary for the Connection Has Been Put Into Place. It is Interesting to report the completion of the remaining strip of unconstructed road necessary to the final linking up of Greece with the rest of Europe, writes Consul General Weddall from Athens. This gap of some 56 miles has at last been closed and the stretch of new roadway was thrown open to traffic in May of this year. The result of the completion of this work to Greece can hardly he overestimated. As soon as the war is ended, through trains will be run from Paris and other European capitals to Athens-Piraeus. The time from Paris will be shortened to some 60 hours, it is thought, and through dining and sleeping cars of the Compagnie Intennationale des Wagons Llts et des Grands Express Europeens will run over the lines. This hitherto missing link In communication lay between Gilda, on the Saloniki-Monastir line, and IPappapuli, on the Thessalonian frontier. Temporary bridges of wood will span streams and valleys until permanent steel and concrete structures replace them after the war. Twenty powerful American locomotives, now ready at Athens, will draw these trains at high speed through the picturesque -Vistritza valley and along the Aegean coast to their destination.