| Show MIDAIR MID AIR WARFARE ix IN this progressive saive age one invention suggests BUg geato another and forthwith it is produced this thia being twe tute case we may look with confidence for the production at an early day of guns and mortars that will throw threw balls and bombs bomba skyward and bring balloonists down from their serial flights to terra firms with a velocity velocity that will make their heads swim this this thought has beba suggested Bug by the present military reconnoitering reconnoiter ing tactics of germany the prussians it seems have so BO far learned the secret of control in midair mid air transit that they me enabled to mount to such euch au an altitude as to render them safe from molestation float boat over the russian frontier encampments encamp ments and take a birdye birdseye birds eye view of the movements of the muscovite troops in these times of international claims and counter claims it is possible that the czar may insist that this prussian air sailing is an invasion of his emp amp ireon the ground that the atmosphere immediately over Ru russian sistan territory is an adjunct of the real estate and may not be violated with impunity should other nations soon obtain the proficiency now reached by Germ in balloon control we may look for the next great war to include the walty of a battle in midair mid air unless recon notter ers of this kind can be scattered by skyward firing ordnance perhaps the author of cleara Cs eara le column was not so far out after all in his extraordinary stretch hof of imagination with regard to future possibilities |
