Show fit Ii 60 COULTER ON WARFARE WHAT THE ARMY MIGHT DO TO SAVE ITSELF Lieutenant HI His Parents In Ogden Tells or of the Develop Developments meats ments In Aerial Navigation ir H G Coulter Conker a first in Inthe the const Q of the tho Unit United ed States army who Is spending his at tIme tho homo home of his parents In Ogden Is watching with deep In Interest crest terest the tho progress of aerIal ion as he realizes Unit when whon airships I and aeroplanes are somewhat imn im I I proved and mado serviceable fa for I pur purposes I poses tIme tho whole plan of defense b bI by I anti battleships must un undergo dergo radical change In Iii a statement I Imade made to this paper Ito ho says I Recent In canal nay nave loud load to La the conclusion that airships lla nn an important lIart In iii the wars ivars of the tho but bill It Is it If lh 0 it can be fullY determined without putting them to time the test cf f actual conflict The Tho German government with tho ho aid of oC I Count has gone gono time tho farthest In tIme the work wok or of for aerial warfare lii In lint It hIs bus In its Ils 1105 session n a few ow airships capable ot of car tying a vcr ery light In present state or of development how heir ever eor these e would not be capable of oC inflicting very vory damage on all aim y With the pro lem of the I in iii so onlo a stage the problem of time tho has of course re very lIttle The con of the problem from froni either standpoint in 19 as aa yet yol largely n a mattoi of conjecture The Tho fact exists how over that thal IS as soon us tin a state of any am develop i I mont us as machines our coast defenses and our oum na navy will bo be call cally What the tho navy most I nt at the Is the tho more immor tar It Is hardly to state i tIme tho Is 1 to I throw shells Oiled wIth explosive to Ii a greaL heIght so BO that in coming coining I down the they pierce that most able lait or of 1 it deck doal Dr By moans or of it a carefullY system out OUI coast coust do doI fonso mortar 11 are noW able ablo I to Lo drop from froni 30 to 10 cent o of theIr shots idiots Inside n a given cliche circle fifty yards ards in iii rn us at ranges varying Prom foum to Lo seven miles nilles As soon lIoon us as aim I ships are capable of oC carl carrying ing quantities ties of shells mind and or of drop dropping dropping ping them with a similar accuracy from a height ot of one or two amiles our coust defenses anti ancl nil navy vy will bp be obsolete foi or neither were e with a to Lo encountering enemies in iii time the all air Out S 5 tem which represents the re results or of the expenditure of millIons oi of dol doi dollars lars lurs and the lie lifo life work of hun reds of officers will ivill be Practically useless I To encounter aerial the big guns must be remounted on on different carriage and an on different system tem must be This Is supposIng lug Ing that we ire should have to rely upon our oui fixed fortIficatIons to Lo tight light air airships ships shill which of oC course would not nol be bethe bethe the case easo Our own airships will en encounter i counter those or of the enemy and the result of tho ho aerial campaign wm de I II the tho result v the tho 11 r Al present the tho United St gOY gos I ommen l has nl n the tho only aerial cOlne aca In it possession being the aeroplane rho of this Ine indicates i that the thc government Is to the tho I situation It H now for lIt us to toI I I 1001 pace with oilier powers lii In do de along this line untIl such sucha I a Is reached that humanity shall de an end of oC war by bS of its tremendous power newer of oC LIon ion of 1 and life I |