Show I WARRING CRAFT HIGH 1 UP IN AIR AI Hudson Maxim Predicts That Flying Machines M hines Are AreS S Next to Come S 1 New Kew York March 14 Expressing the belief beleC that an aerial navy nay will wl be the Ule I next step tep In the final conquest of war 4 Hudson Maxim Inventor of ot explosives explosive and first maker of ot smokeless powder in inthis Inthis this country countr speaking tonight at the tho I second annual banquet baquet of the Aero club I of ot New York at the St Regis declared that we must have armaments In or order Order i der det to enforce International law and I that we need a stronger navy Mr lr Maxim surprised his auditors by declaring that the Japanese had recent recently ly Iy purchased purchase of a n steel company com pan at Newark N J three thousand tons ton of ot rifle rife barrels rifles enough h to arm laO men Most of or the rifles the speaker stated were In the hands hads of the Jap Japanese Japanese anese ane troops S Mr Ir Maxim speaking of the part the flying machine would play In war wa said Some terrible things tings have been pre predicted predicted predicted for the flying machine as a war engine It t is comforting to know that no Ito 10 very great loss of ot life Ufe or property would woid result from dynamite dropping from flying machines for the reason that It I requires confinement to work very ver wide destruction Half HaIr a a ton tort of ot dynamite dropped upon the four inch deck v of a battleship might kill kUl kUa a few men wre wreck rek k some of the superstructure and dent the deck a bit but the de destruction destruction i would not be widespread and the crew below would be uninjured L Dropped on coast fortifications the ii damage would be negligible Half Halt ton 1 bombs dropped into Into the streets of ot a aI I large city cl or on top of geat reat build buildings buld buildS S ings lags would shake a few feI foundations S break a lot of or glass and kill ki a few tew pee peo people pe pIe The flying machine wilt will wl have very ver great use In war as a I scouting craft for forthe forthe forS forthe S the purpose of or locating an enemy and Inspecting his position but the enemy S will wI have his aerial pickets picket out too and there ther will wi be many a tilt tit in the air airS S between Iet the warring craft craft |