Show JAPS TO USE BALLOONS their value in warfare now a recognized fact american and european armies used balloons for some years and they were notably successful aloyed by the british during the south african war lor spying out the enemy s position and for the eunity they gave the british engineers to study the difficulties of the land for defensive and offensive operations in the spanish war the united states army was not so because the balloon was sent up too near thea enemy and from he center of the in bading army and the lives of both the regiments and the occupants of the balloon were in much greater ger thereby japan up as usual with the most advanced of modern meth has assigned this specialty to one of the seven military officers she Is sending abroad this year to study modern warfare capt who has long made ballooning his specialty is the officer sent by the japanese government to study all forms of aerial navigation he la in germany at present pursuing his studies and the japanese govern ment it Is said will give him every opportunity to further his researches and experiments the department ot strategy of the japanese army Is ea interested in thia matter and win have constructed shortly an ex peri mental building where the bal I 1 loons and apparatus can be tested with the view of adopting or perhaps inventing some form of airship to the maneuvers of the imperial army |