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Show The Aeroplane In War THE French are beginning to make apparent what the aeroplane is eventually to be in a nation's military equipment. If it never becomes an effective fighting machine, it will still be a constant anxiety to commanders of dt armies, for no commander feels secure for a moment when he has an impression that his communication with his base is being cut off. For that purpose an aeroplane can in two hour3 traverse a distance that a marching army would be twelve days in compassing, and a troop of 1 cavalry on a forced march would be three days in making. In a joking way we suggested recently that I could Madero have an aeroplane brigade to chase his revolutionists, It would be the quickest I way to Insure peace to his country. But that is really a serious fact, for that would awaken the I superstitious fears of those looters down there I quicker tljan anything else. It would be incom prehensible to the rank anl file of his enemies; were one to suddenly appear, sweep over a camp of them and drop a few shells, even though no damage was done, those men would not dare retire to their tents at night, for their minds would be filled with the fear that the new impllment would come while they slept. King Richard offered a kingdom for a horse: Madero could afford to offer a state for a half dozen aeroplanes and men to fly them. |