Show THE SEA FIGHT OF THE FUTURE The airship business has progressed so far that one German Gennan naval officer is preparing plans for armor to protect ships from bombs dropped from airships and a colonel of artillery in the German army has invented a six-inch six gun that h he e claims will bring down an airship at a height of feet a French officer trails a fin fines fine wire behind his airship W which l ch b by electricity can be made to catch on a ship or the coat collar of a soldier and then a bomb descends de- de along the wire wiro and annihilates a ship or a company of soldiers while a third German officer has hns issued a complete manual for the use of officers and crews s of airships This makes one imagine a description of a naval battle in the near future something like this The fleet la lay off oft Hoboken the time fleet of the enemy was seen to be forming in the lower bay The morning was a misty one the sky was filled with clouds and the presence of airships could not be ge discerned The enemy en en- emy steamed up the bay in three columns the Neptune Nepo Neptune Nep Nep- o tune tunc the flagship of the tho admiral leading and closely followed by r the Pluto the the thears Mars ars and the thc others The rhe first shot was fired by o our r flagship tho the Hail nail Columbia It IL was one of our American torpedo shots It struck the Neptune below the water waterline line and find shattered the thc armor then the shell from the same sank torpedo entered through the time rent thus made and a moment later exploding the Neptune with its ts admiral and crew of a thousand men turned turtle and sank This greatly demoralized the enemy but a moment later a submarine attached an immense shell to the bottom of the Hail Columbia and amul steaming awa away fired the shell and and the mighty Hail nail Columbia shattered l by y the explosion quickly sank The Thc Pluto then came Caine up lip and attacked the two ships Yankee Yankee Yan Yan- kee Doodle and amid America ramming the Yankee Doodle Doodle Doodle Doo Doo- dle and pouring terrific c broadsides into the America But the Star Spangled Banner now no got in range and h by a single plunging shot from her forward turret sank the Pluto Then the time Mars and the Bachus and the rest drew out and fled to the shelter of the guns aims of Governors Governor's Island but before they ther could anchor a fleet of airships dropped their bombs and Governors Governor's Governors Governor's Govern Govern- ors or's Island ceased to exist To be he continued |