Show r i j ance ranee I Renews Agitation For j Submarine T to England I- I t r 11 W 1 A 1 1 C Cf J. J AC f vh 1 JU I II tn I er 1 J D 4 L IM t dt r 1 1 9 f c I I Heres Here's tho w way y Prevost de de- Saint Saint-Cyr French inventor proposes to tho tube for fop r rail rafi iI traffic Sections would be tl milt on shore towed into int position and then sunk to rest reet on piers l I feet below the surf surface co Divers operating from barges would join 1 he sections together after which the water would bo be pumped out Opposition Disappears as Project Is J 1 No Longer Seen as War Menace By MINOTT SAUNDERS H J PARIS NEA NEA Several Several interruptions tills winter In boat oat and airplane air air- r plane pIano services rel het between tho tito continent conti conti- nent and tho tim British h Isles IRles b by storms and violent gales have ha caused re renewed ro- ro red n n agitation fOt for a tunnel or orsome some ome sort Bart of submarine submarino passageway linking tho ho two const Tho Tue French press Is practically I unanimous In favor of or a channel road and It ft has strong support In ns 1 nd French engineers aro In Inclined Inclined In- In dined to ridicule tho fears of or lh inva slon sion held h by certain English l I clans arid and the doubts ou ts of or the advisability advisability bulLy of oC a channel tunnel In admiralty admiralty alty circles Tho French maintain that In case of ot war tho tunnel could he 9 wrecked t from om either cither shore shor and tho British rm navy would be robbed of or orI I nono of or Its supreme Importance Tho The latest French Idea Is to link lio tho two shores with a submarine I tub ube tube semi This TIlls Is the of or ost do C Saint Saint-Cyr r famous Inventor and engineer who claims ho lie has Ilas out several se Important departures from tram pl previous lous methods in marine marino engineering which Jilch make mako It entirely feasible BUILD TUBE ON LAND Cyrs Cyr's su submerged tubo tube would he e sa atI be ue constructed n land and ut at ut into place front from the surface of oC the he water All that would then remAin ic- ic mAin would bo to build the tho railroad tracks In the tube On Ol tho other hand the tho tunnel method has lias man many supporters but butIta butts its Ita ts critics sa say it would bo be tl able ablo because first tho co cost t would ito he a prohibitive and second Cond the In- In would mako Inako draining of ot lio tIlO tunnel impossible even en if It enl c economics made modo it possible Saint Saint-Cyr maintains that his I 3 chemo cherne solves es all tho the difficulties of oC he tunnel Hi i 1 tubo tube would be of or COnC cona t te re resting UnG on stone liars on OB shore thore and L JJ on sup- sup I orts that would bo be sunk to the bottom It would be subI sub sub- ed to a depth of oC about 60 feet it I I caving ins ample space above e lor tor navigation nay navi I. I allan gation to pass over O it and antl the space J 11 ath to allow the flow of ot ocean Such a tube would be constructed i i sections at nt least metres lon long and would be of reinforced concrete When lien completed ashore they would be bo hermetically sealed scaled and antl tho the t sections see sec CC- CC Hans floated tp tv their positions above ubo the tho already built Tho pillars would bo be constructed at nt ea h by means mens of or molds which would be built ashore and floated to position The They would be telescopic c so 1 that iKu ha t the they could bo lie lowered 1 In sections The rhe tOPI topmost ost section would bo ho attached to of oC ofa a a. series of ot heavy rafts rals thus making It certain that tho the molds would re retain retain re- re tain their proper height ht With the molds submerged the they would be filled with concrete piped from the hore forming tho the pillars Tho The in inventor inventor inventor in- in claims that putting the tuba lubo sections In III place would bo ho quite a simple feat cat of or engineering and the they would be joined together underneath the tho surface The French always have havo been IHen most forward for with tho the channel tunnel tun tun- lid nel idea Tho first definite plan plaIt is is believed to have havo been put forward in m b by a engineer er named who thought that it would i imn mn mao make o stage l coach traffic JIO possible between France anti and England Other t trench en engineers followed etl anti and d during dur clur- ur- ur lug ing the nineteenth century t sound sound- soundings In ings i were vero ma made e to discover tho the best est route BUILDING BEGUN In the carl early SOs SO's construction work actually was undertaken British and antl French railways formed channel tunnel companies and alit started to dig from opposite sides expecting expecting- to Join in the middle The French company's companS building at Ing Sangatte San SaIl g gatte tte near neal Calais still stUl stands The They found round that digging in the chalk und undersea undersea un un- un- un d bed was st-as luIte quite easy but such stron shon strong g political t ical pressure pressur was I. I Ishon brought against the English company company com corn pany that work worle had to he be stopped I Ever since th then n political pressure has stood In the wa way of ot an any actual development dc and until this can be he swept wept awa away in England nothing can bo be done The Tho French arguo argue that the airplane tho tIle submarine and nd long range ranso guns now no make mako absurd any arguments against tho tunnel as a military or Ot naval menace Tho channel at Its narrowest point is 20 miles Wile wide During tho the winter months of oC heavy seas s and storms frequently mal make the crossing by boat very disagreeable le sometimes Impo impossible Even th the English cannot cannot cannot can can- not deny the value of oC such uch a project in time and ancl comfort |