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Show THOUSAND AIRMEN READY FOR BATTLE France Has Hundreds of Aviators Prepared to Cross Border if Germany Wants War, LEADS ALL OTHER NATIONS Can Construct Twenty Planes Daily and Instruct Aviators in a Week's Time. BY PAUL VILLIER. Special Cable to The Tribune. FARIS, Sept. 9. A factor which makes Prance Indisposed to concede extreme German demands in Morocco is the feeling feel-ing that after all an armed conflict be-twf be-twf en France and Germany would not be so one-sided as the Germans and perhaps per-haps others believe. Not only is the French army In better shape than it has been since the days of the first Napoleon, Na-poleon, but France Is far in the lead in military aviation. The feeling as to the aeroplane In war Is expressed In a recent interview with M. Vedrines, the noted airman. "In France we have over 1000 airmen who have their certificates. I cannot say that these are all qualified today for special military duty, but v,e have if a i call were made fifty sehooln 0f aviation In France, ten of which are of the highest high-est order, and can turn out aviators with a week's training If required With tho present facilities of construction twentv aeroplanes a day could bo produced if they were needed. These can be carried In compact form, so the question of tisnsportalion amounts to nothing. "It is Just here That the generally unappreciated un-appreciated power of the aeroplane ex-i-?tS- It ! in that psychic effect, upon i the minds of people of threatened com- I munltles that the greatest peace-compelling power of the aeroplane is to be round, elf-preservation is a sound law I of nature and tho miscellaneous destruc-tion destruc-tion of all one's family and hard-earned belongings Is not a thought that can be j DVercome by an appeal to patriotism. As for our destructive possibilities we. can drop from an aeroplane at an unreasonable un-reasonable height 200 pounds of high ex-PlOSlvea ex-PlOSlvea destroy railroads, bridges, ships r.nd cities They talk of bringing aeroplanes aero-planes down with gunfire! Weil as f'ir BM I am concerned I would much rather take my chances In the air during a battle than on the ground." For these reasons the idea is growing that the proper place to settle this controversy Is in an international conference. Boys' Plot for Pennies. The French strike fever with its accompaniment ac-companiment of sabotage (deliberate wreckage of property), has led to a remarkable re-markable plot by a syndicate of boys be ing discovered by the police. For some time past tho repeated actB of vengeance by dismissed strikers on the state-owned Western railway have led to the line being systematically patrolled by police. While passing the tunnel of Martinvast, near Cherbourg, the police noticed that two signals had been tampered tam-pered with. An express train from Cherbourg Cher-bourg to Paris, carrying British and American transatlantic passengers, was due to pass the spot, and one of the policemen was hurried off to notify the railway authorities of the discovery. Another policeman lay down bv a wayside way-side bank. His patience was soon rewarded, re-warded, for Just as the transatlantic express ex-press came in sight It slowed down owing ow-ing to the danger signals, and a partv of six boys varying in age from 9 to 13, appeared. Rushing up to the first-class carriages, the boys began to whine out. "Un p'tlt penny seulement un p tit penny. Arh yes!" Generous Americans began to throw out small change, and the lads were engaged en-gaged in a vigorous ecramhl when the policeman in waiting, who had been reinforced re-inforced by others, seized the boys. On being marched off to the police station the boys confessod that thr-y had formed a eyndlcate to stop boat trains In order to oeg for pennies The vigorous caning the boys will get will be a lesson to the syndicate not to Interfere with trains even when they convey wealthy and generous foreigners New Motor Signals, Sirens, exhaust-whistles and foghorns fog-horns will be regretted when the "Arch-angers "Arch-angers Trumpet ' haB superseded thern. This Is a new invention for motor cars, which seems from its description to be rather diabolical than angelic. Some motor horns already play a fragment of a tune, .usually from the Trumpet March In Verdi's "Alda," and few notos heard every few seconds are maddening enough The new invention has a whole octave of notes, which can be sounded by a "simple device." Moreover, "abie compilers" have arranged several "scores" of many themes, which a chauffeur chauf-feur of ordinary musical Intelligence will be able to learn with ease and to execute ex-ecute with effect. These themes are actually ac-tually takon from well-known music. The prospect of the possible desecration Is appalling. Shall we be warned to get out of the wav by the first four notes of the C Minor Symphony, by Siegfried's own special motif, or bv the "three notes" which stand for Fate in the Ring operas? |
