Show GEMANS GERMANS PIN FAITH FOR FR FUTURE IN AIRPLANES AIRPLANES' Lord Northcliffe Northcliff Warns of Advances in Air Pro Program ram t LONDON June 8 It I It is obvious from fron the writings of ot German military mitry authors uth s since th the war war that th they y are are pledging g their faith in Inthe the future o to the theair air am said Lord Lord Northcliffe in In Ina a recent speech h Surely it i is pro probable able that a war a-war war of ot the future is likely t to td be bo a land war of tanks Accompanied d by airplanes and td at sea a war of ot submersible ships also by airplanes BRITA BRITAIN LAGS LAGS Britain has only begun t to develop flight Ight and and andI I am once again agin beginning to tobe e be anxious as s to our position n in inre- inre re regard gard to aviation I X do not think we know inow how t far r Germany has gone since the armistice or how many airplanes she realy really has It I has been been stated in In parliament parlament that that the tho Germans hav have confessed to having over machines But I have been looking into German war books books lately and I find that Genera General Schwante in n an interesting volume called caled Ministry Lessons of ot the Great War says that hat they had hid altogether airplanes I cannot believe beleve it possible that the allies ales brought down don the he difference e between and 1600 16 15 00 We Ve must watch Germany closely In n this and other matters maters WAR PREPARATION We Ve do not fully realize that the quickest w way wy y ot of going to war in In the future will wI be by the use of air all ma ma- chines It I is quie quito quite lately that we knew how far the Germans had gone gonen in hi n aviation before the war At the outbreak outbreak outbreak out out- break of hostilities the best machines we had were fitted with wih seventy or eighty horsepower engines At that tim tm Imd the Germans were testing air airplane airplane air air- plane lane engines of ot OO horsepower and they had trained flying yIng men in great numbers DESTROYS ISOLATION The intervention of the airplane h has s changed hanged the position of England more snore than ban that of ot any country In the world For Tor a thousand years and more we regarded regarded re- re our position as being comparatively compra- compra Ively free tree from the war dangers that threatened the other countries of Eu- Eu rope ope We Ve thought that the very ver small piece of sea we had around us us' would us-would would be e our safeguard But one Sunday morning moring M. M l. l arrived at Dover and nd a few thinking people began to realize at once that our position was entirely chan changed d Unfortunately for tor fors forus us s most of those thinking people lived in n Germanys Germany and it i was almost Immediately Immediately Imme- Imme lately after that that they they began those continual tests at Johannisthal where by y Increasing rewards to airmen air air- all men they broke all al flying records The Germans ate are talking and writ writ- In n about revenge by air We need eed not be alarmed but we must watch them and ge e to our own efficiency ef er clency and progress |