Show IG I oJ Utter Destruction I 1 1 Of Paris Hideous p Plan of Germans i t 1 i iB D B By Li Universal creal Service Staff SinH Corre pon- pon deuce deuce 13 A A hint of ono one war T 0 Sept LO DOX J i horror at nt least which was not resorted re resorted resorted re- re sorted to in the last bat war ar but which tho the destructive de de- de- de I may 3 well tako Its place among u agencies to be employed In tho next inevitable conflict has lUls come como out with this weeks week's revelations or secrets In tho German national assembly This Is the aerial flamo thrower well wen christened the flying Ine deathA death A A Copenhagen message published here hereby by the air sa says the Berlin Berlin Ber Ber- lin Post has lias published hel a p letter which Herr I er sent to General Von Yon Falkenhayn then w war r minister In September Sep Sep- 1911 Just just n a n month after aner the thear war ar start started wherein started d wherein ho recommended sep sep-I I that Zeppelins Invading In England be bo equipped with flame throwers or lame flame sprays from which liquid fire Ire could be dropped In a drenching rain upon I crowded cities The rho allowed alleged ed letter from concluded with a n. statement of the writers writer's ls c conviction that all 1111 humanitarian hu humanitarian humanitarian hu- hu considerations and scruples of oC International relative rel to the violation rl l law r she be set aside In the n. n fatherlands fatherland's battle hattle against her ring of or oren en enemies mies Id Jd n i 11 JOm I Unfortunately the published letter d docs dock cS not enter Into the details of or how liquid l fire was to have hn been een squirted upon a dc- dc deen front from a a black midnight sky fenceless en els el's en enny enany n. n cit city but I have ha been informed b by an nn official o-Iclal of the British air ministry tn chat Kat not only Is the l Idea cn practicable fr lint but that the royal air force engineers actually act urt II had under con con- an Invention n which wouW carry carr Into i r xi-cution xi this very Ven idea Bui Bul h giving I practical demonstrations dem uC lIf f t the he appliance before the heads of or the tho department th the British flyers did Ud pot nothing r. r Th They dl did not hold tho the same t lows s is us a 1 er Is II alleged c to have c h in re regard to sanctity of oC InternatIOnal law Jw Horror of Seat ur r I J am privileged to 0 make ml th the state state- however ho that if Ie when the next great t re war comes It It f Is accompanied d by 11 wholesale disregard ard of ot time one-time conventions con concerning the rights rl ot Of tant such uch as characterized the actions t of t some ornE of oC tho the belligerents In i the last c struggle tru the dreadful dreadful dread dread- I ful rain of Ci- Ci fire from the sk sky ina maybe mayb b come collie one of the Incidents of or tion tf n. n with tho reported super- super poisonous g s Fild stid to he be a a. secret In the possession of tf the United States arm army and md like e the tho aerial flame capable of droPP droppo 1 i 1 from the skies would make the wiping wh out of or a race raco merely merel a a. matter of mathematical computation Bit by lw bit the tho stories of ot the war horrors horrors horrors' the grappling nations In thelast the thelast last great conflict had locked up In their technicians technicians' cabinets but did ld not put putt I In use are coming to light Armistice Nipped lipped Plan Before he hc h revelations concerning the tho fire ire from the flames we heard a n. afew fw few foW months ago In tn roundabout fn fashion of or the German plan for the total destruction de de- or Paris which was to have been employed cd this year ear but which h the armistice happily nipped before beCore the bloom This was ns in a way even en a re refinement refinement refinement re- re over O the tho notion of ofa ofa ofa a death rain LI Light ht flying scouts l were to precede Germanys Germany's ma maximum possible fleet flet of hom bombing planes in a n final sally against the French capital The scouts were to tobe he be equipped with small fire bombs of some somo chemical which when burning defied the thi notion action of or water These were to be showered upon Paris b by the hun hundreds hun bun creating creating- fires everywhere Then the heavier healer bombers were to follow hard after and drop tons upon pon tons of or high explosives upon the the city which la lay revealed d by hy the light of ot its burning bU buildings Defense Tho only i 1 defense against such an attack would have been en barrage bar bar- rage fire ire an anti and a counter-attack counter b by French rt guarding aeroplanes of ot the fighting type But Rut th the IT dr monr mon mon- r I strat rt what is now counted counte an axiom 1 In air warfare which Is that neither of vt these m methods of ot defense during a a. nl night ht attack Is more than a n stab In the dark Had juch a concerted attack b by German a aeroplanes been boen made mad upon Paris there is no question but that the worlds world's most beautiful city would have been en wrecked tl beyond restoration I |