Colonel S.-W. If we have a tunnel we must have a force worth sending to send through it.
A. C. D. If you are going to couple the tunnel with compulsory service, you will get neither one nor the other.
Gen. W. I think, so far as submarines go, that the British patrols would make it a very desperate service. Some desperate man might get his boat through.
A. C. D. Some desperate man might command a flotilla and get it through.
Gen. W. Many things seem possible theoretically which cannot be done in practice, but no doubt there is a danger there. In your view the Territorials are simply a support for the fighting Army?
A. C. D. Yes.
Gen. W. But they are too untrained to go into action.
A. C. D. They would be reserves and have time to train.
Gen. W. Your idea of troops coming back in case of a raid through the tunnel is impossible. You could not withdraw troops in that way from their positions.
A. C. D. Well, with all respect, I do not believe either in a raid or in an invasion.