Show Air Raid on New York t Not Beyond Possibility Zeppelin 1 TV Working orl ng A With i Boat U-Boat as Gasoline Sup Supply 11 ly 3 ii Ship r 1 11 Make 11 Trip p Across Atlantic plight Might A IF Work From Base on Coast o of III Mexico exico fX C. C AX the Germans bomb horab Nevi v v e York from the air Evidently E the feat fent is impossible But transform the exp exploit loit into n ix daring a military adventure nd en lure ture involving in more than ordinary aeronautic risks risks risks- Surely Surely enough has lias been presented to prove pro that Hint noncombatants at home may yet Jet some of the horrors that have ha been visited on ou Paris and London Loudon But if we cherish the illusion illusion that New York and other coast const cities arc safe safo from front ne aerial bombardment we wc live li in u a fools fool's I r paradise elise j These are nrc- the from an interesting technical article in in the thc Review ic f J T f Reviews t ew-t which endeavors ors to prove that the feat of or bombing New York by y Zeppelin or seaplane is not impossible basing basin b ar argument on the fact that a nation which has hos even built huilt a n gun gUll with a n range c of or seventy five miles for the sole purpose of or displaying technical supremacy in the many man- man J y J- J of or military weapons might keen deem it worth while to convert the thc possibility sib lit of flying across the Atlantic into sensational reality emu B By establishing a baso base of or supplies In U tree e ocean Itself with a n carrying cargo I IU v 4 oth mother r submarine submarino o of tho Deutschland Species It Is pointed out exhausted reservoirs s might be refilled and now new supplies obtained Zeppelins carry arr electric winches Inches by means of cir watch tanks can cnn bo be lowered and raised In less les time than It takes to hoist a safe afe from the tho sidewalk to tho the window of or a fifth fifth- I star story building Assuming that a northerly parallel of or latitude would be followed and md that for lack of or a baso on the North orth American shore tho the attempt of oC a n a to reach New ew York with a a. hull full loud load of bombs Is not lIkel likely to j r However How How- vever v- v ever tho the writers point out what If Ir the Atlantic were welo to bo be cro crossed ged on a n south south- erly course Assuming that the craft starts out from Pola on the Adriatic and drops to an Isola Isolated tell spot on the barren coast o of Morocco and refills renUs Its tanks a u. performance quite possible I along Iong that tha t sparsely h inhabited stretch of oC land wising rising once more and toward tho the Atlantic which W way WW W would tho the commander lay lar hl his courso course Straight for tho the Lesser Antilles like lUto a a. buccaneer buccaneer bucca bucca- neer of oC the cl eighteenth century Among I tho hundreds of or coves cove that Indent the I Islands ard that sheltered the looters of or the tho Spanish Man In their lr tine a ar aI r I leaven haven cJu could d he found found- where a A. submarine submarine submarino rine rino might l lurk rk with explosives and antI gasoline It Is oven on conceivable that thata a n base I might ht be established In Mexico o. o The Thet const coast of that country Is not nt too I well and among among- a people not yet brought under complete b by the present government go t rt lends enough ml might ht be hI found to further a aGerman aGerman German enterprise lint Would n Ilc With this Illustration In mind the question q then arises In ones one's mind What hat then What would ouM be tho the range of oC a n craft freighted to the utmost with those terrible bombs that have o been dropped on Antwerp Bucharest Paris Puls and London Washington a the tho or very vory I brain of oC tho the country In this critical I time ml might ht even sustain some Injury Not ot moro more than ono one attack could cO bo be boma I ma made o on cm tho the city most mORt accessible from I the seas sea or the GA G JC If of or Mexico Mex Mox- leo ico tho the writers state and a super super- r- r of or tho the hl highly hl- hl developed t type pe that has become familiar to the allies through h tho the fortunate capture of or the tho I. I L 19 t- t t last year must sooner or later re return return return re- re turn to Its harbor or shed a huge esp especially built structure with a complicated complicated com com- equipment for tor mooring the tho great hull huit on flat ears or boats and I guiding it to shelter A quick return mu jt must bo be made to Europe after a single raid The Tho voyage from Pola the tho attack on Washington ton the return to tho the thon Antilles Antilles An An- n nI tilles Illes for fresh file cold and the homo home voyage voy- voy voy- voy I ago age would take at least ten days lla's The Tho safety and success of or tho the enterprise therefore depends entirely on weather Guiding minds of ot such an undertaking lug ing In must therefore calculate tho ho meteorological meteorological me me- chances for fOl and against success Under no circumstance must God Cod fall tan tho the kaiser Another noeh r nS n S Seaplanes A more simple method Is 1 described In the article whereby seaplanes seaplanes sea sea- planes might bo be assembled leli on largo submarines submarine and and then lien lowered lo to n the water preparatory to their bombing raid Should the tho e be successful SUccessful successful success SUccess- ful in Its raid rail and anel return to the mother mothel submarine the process of oC dismembering the craft would cult and perilous Necessarily n a submarine would ouM not have to i bo lie e used In the past Germany German has captured Innocent merchant wes wes- ca casein sein and used them thern as raiders A German German Ger Ger- man raider to all appearances arances Is ts an ordinary merchantman CI flying ln a n neutral neu trU even een an n American flag Awaiting a n. moment when the tho water Is smooth tilt tho craft could be slipped overboard a feat much easier caNler than erecting an as- as platform on tho the deck of or a narrow submarine to in Pilot Destroyers armed patrol boats andall and andall all aJ the faster taster bouts beats of th the Atlantic coast would of or course bo be summoned to tour scour the coast for tor aerial raiders I and only by a n would ho C escape And Ancl yot ot ot although his hl- return to tho submarine or merchantman raider Is a apos pos possibility 1 It too remote r r for or 01 serious consideration consideration con con- and althou although h 11 it bombing Pilots Pilot's attack would probably end In I capture or death who coot can d ny that Now New may thus be bombarded d. d Taking up tip technical points and provIng proving proving ing In various ways was such a feat Is I not an Idle hUe dream or an Impossibility tho the two well known writers and followers of oC science of or the world end a n portion of oC theIr subject thus Lives LI and machines are arc not reckoned reckoned reckoned reck reck- In waging war Because an en enterprise en- en is suicidal it Is not Impossible ble lint Hut with all the technicalities brou brought ht Into discussion and admitting the feasibility of or such Much a project from I tho the enemy's point of oC view tho the paramount paramount paramount para para- mount feature of oC such Ilich a project has not been taken talen Into due consideration Americas America's own coast defense Should or seaplanes succeed succeed suc suc- In reaching American shores aortal anti anil coast coat defenses of ot the lira nation I will easily cl cope copo with the situation Plane News |