§ SIR H. TYLER (Great Yarmouth)I beg to ask the Financial Secretary to the War Office whether it is proposed to make a tunnel six feet high by five feet wide through the rock of Gibraltar from west to east, and what is the object of such a tunnel; and whether this tunnel will in any contingencies endanger the safety of the city or impair the efficiency of the defences?
§ MR. BRODRICKA tunnel is about to be driven into the centre of the rock of Gibraltar in the hope of finding a supply of fresh water. If water should not be found the tunnel will be carried through and utilised to carry a drain through the rock from west to east, in order that the sewage now discharged into the Bay may be carried to the east of the rock and cease to be a nuisance. There is no fear that the tunnel would give an enemy access to the fortress.