Show u U I Tunnel Under English Channel to Be Started Soon F FA 4 m J x J v Jf 4 JV v v- v X k N 4 jfe s r r f- f z P sK ii g s- s Q Hg fL Tr j j j I 4 1 A S p C v i 7 z- z 4 c s. c t 4 I. I 3 T r S 5 S M rz I y 7 4 k T 5 4 I t S 'S Drawing shows details of proposed tunnel under the English channel to tov facilitate transportation between England and anti the continent The diameter 4 of the tunnel is of necessity out of proportion to the length The tunnel willbe will v S ii be two thirty miles long The diameter is drawn on enlarged scale to show its construction One of ot the tho results of ot the war Is expected ex- ex J to be tho Joining of England find and Franco with a a. great eat double bore boref boreI f I tunnel from Dover to Calais This enI enl en- en I l has baa Deen talked of ot for years but bat It was not until the tho French and andI I f British were at bay In the tho great conI con- con I and maintaining the passage e atthe of at hp the channel at tremendous effort efort and cost st that th the tho need of a quick route beI between be- be tween London and Paris was vas driven I I b home bome me convincingly I ThroUgh train service from Paris l to Dover will be bo cut down to six ix hours T and tho the advantage of at a Do continue is freight tr ight service would be tremendous Borrowing the tho American idea of train V ferries used for tor years rs on m n the Great t i IAk Lakes tho the British l such uch b. b j I service running b between tw n t and CaWs CahUs This enabled tho the transi trans- trans i of ot guns gens and munitions across In complete completo trainS train trall- I the Straits Strait of Dover S loads The proposed tunnel will b be the thet of ot off greatest engineering enterprise f t modern modem history with tho the exception of or the Panama canal The cost of ot this thi great engineering teat foat Ut is placed d at and md tho the time tErse of building at five years cars Toe The g general nrAl dimensions follow rollow Length Lens thirty mitts miles of which t cn two ty-two miles will bo ho un cr cr sea Diameter of ot bores twenty feet Depth of tunnel floor below belov- sea se level leveLzo z-o z feet teet Average ago depth of water Is feet teet foet feet of or gray chalk between sea bottom and top of ot bores for or protection protection pro pro- against explosives s placed b by submarines Oblique tunnels placed CJ T CO 60 0 feet teet for tOt switching purposes should ho Jd any section become heroine Water Vater lock one mile long dipped below O general level lovel of ot tunnel t Furl Furl- to permit flooding in ease case of at to be bo controlled rem rom Dover belle re Insurmountable Insurmountable- Engineers rs no difficulties will be met mat In tn building the tho tunnel but admit the greatest t question ques ques- lon tion Is whether the gra gray chalk und underlying under under- r- r 1 lying the of ot Dover is impervious impervious imper imper- to 10 water TAI TALK K ON ox TRE TIm TRIV PLANNED The Theatre will win bo the subject of Dr ofa a 3 a. a talk by Miss Maud May Babcock at l a meeting of or the tho priesthood quorum o of of the Eighteenth ward at 10 a a. a m to- to day |