The Channel Tunnel (26 december 1913)
The Channel Tunnel is a letter written by Arthur Conan Doyle published in The Times on 26 december 1913.
The Channel Tunnel
TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES.
Sir, — The following dialogue which I had recently with a distinguished naval officer of the younger school may seem to bear upon this subject :—
Q.- What Would be the result if a flotilla of submarines got among a fleet of transport carrying troops ?
A.- They would he helpless. They would be destroyed.
Q.- Could submarines be prevented from coming down the North Sea in war time ?
A.- I don't see how they could.
Q.- Would a cordon across the Straits of Dover protect transports to the south of that cordon ?
A.- Submarines could only easily dive under any cordon.
In a word it would be impossible under present conditions to send any expeditionary force abroad without grave risk of appalling disaster. Is this not a sound military argument for a tunnel ?
Yours faithfully,
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE.
Windlesham, Crowborough, Sussex, Dec. 23.
See also
- A Channel Tunnel (11 march 1913, The Times)
- The Channel Tunnel (19 april 1913, Daily Express)
- The Channel Tunnel (14 august 1913, The Times)
- The Channel Tunnel Scheme (26 june 1916, The Glasgow Herald)
- The Channel Tunnel (9 december 1922, The Times)
