Salt Lake Telegram | 1909-07-27 | Page 4 | England Invaded

ENGLAND INVADED S Engl England nd has at last been invaded Louis Ble- Ble riot in ill in his airship has done the business He outran out out- ran can the swiftest torpedo boat destroyer and startled start start- led ted the sleepy sleep town of Dover and in l less ss than twenty minutes delivered the Calais morning pa pa- pers No Ko seasickness no plunging and rolling just justa a sail over the straits straits straits-a a ferry in the air Will Vill England consent to have the straits tunneled now 1 She refused to have it done thirty years ago lest lestin lestin lestin in th the event of war she might be invaded But she can raise no fortifications against the air All her miles of battleships and cruisers would be impotent impotent impotent im im- im- im potent against a foe that had learned the secret of the birds and made the atmosphere the sea on which it sailed The aeroplane has come corne Armies and navies must accept the fact and the nations must rea realize ze that an all seeing eye ee can take in their defenses It is clear that one invention is to to follow another until the means of destruction willbe will willbe willbe be so multiplied that the world will be forced to abandon war and trust to something else through which to adjust its differences Of course th the thi airship is as yet in its crude state But the New NewYork NewYork York illustrated papers that reached here yesterday yesterday yester yester- day had the picture of the hull of the replica of the Half Moon the Moon the ship in which Henr Henry Hudson discovered the river of his time time time-on on the after deck ofa f Dut Dutch h modern steam stam steamer r. r In a a few days the replica of the Clermont Fulton's first steamboat will be completed If the Mauritania can come from such beginnings what will ill the aeroplane be fifty years hence 1 The time will surely come conic when men will learn war no more and the highest ambitions of men will seek their triumphs phs along the lines of peace