H Aerial Navies C RAHAM WHITE declares that the next war 1 will be won by airships, that two thousand M of them could be built for what one battle- B ship costs. It is true that aerial navigation is H advancing perhaps faster than any other H science; the men birds are making longer and H longer flights and carrying more and more H weight. The first great trouble seems to be H either in carrying enough fuel or in feeding the H engine when in flight. But that can be improved H upon. We have an idea that the greatest im- H provement would be in storage batteries, if they H could only be lighter. H But looking ahead a little, imagine two H thousand air ships each carrying one bomb, tak- H ing their flight over a city and dropping their B terrors, or over an army or over a fleet. (No one H shin ,ould hope to fire two thousand shots in a H b&tuc, and what would an army do if two thou- H (Continued on Page 3.) AERIAL NAVIES. (Continued rrom Pago 2.) , sand shells were to be dropped upon It in a single quarter of an hour? It is whispered that when Germany made her demand for a naval station on the west coast of Africa, or in lieu of that a mighty tract of French J Congo country, she really meant to fight if her K' demands were denied, but when she learned that -L France had so perfected aerial navigation as to ySf overtop all other nations, Germany grew modest I in her demands and seemed anxious to come to 1 a peaceful settlement of the trouble which she had made. Certain it is that henceforth the I nations, in measuring each other's naval i strength, must take into the count the navies of the air as well as those of the deep sea.