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Show 9 i I Submarines and Aeroplanes ' Star Actors; i The big guns nnd' tho gas bombs havo been in tho spotlight at Inter-, vnls, hut suhmarlnoa and nlr craft aro unmistakably tho stur nctors In tho present war. Por tho first tlmo each has n record of roaiiy practical work and valuablo results. In the nlr, tho acroplano s acknowledged to, bo tho real dependenco. As predicted predict-ed In thoso pages a year boforo tho war, tho dlriglulo as n war weapon can bo counted n failure. Truo , a fow trips havo boon made' In Bool weather, orosslng tho English rban-uel, rban-uel, and dropping q few bombs tuat hnve In tho wholo eur's wor killed loss than 200 peopio and these mont ly women and children . For n larne fleet, oach vosgel of which cost $'",. 000 or over, this cannot bo cotwhlnr-ed cotwhlnr-ed much In tho wr.y ot result ' baithi has been won or oi'ti .'Tcicd i hv Mf of a dirigible li i unqtii b-i"i.ubl b-i"i.ubl been an owfji m, 'om to. tho nrltlsh, but when the worst It has dono nnd all It has accomplished aro summed up, tho dirigible to ilato ! must bo declared moro a menaco ttian n real danger nnd largely a Ilasco. Jn fnct, ovory Gorman dirigible which Inn crossed Into England has enMly remitted 10,000 men to the Brlll'in colors. Therefore, on account of tho cost, dependonco on gotfd leather, It? slzo ns a mark and small res-ilts, It Is now fairly well established that tho dlrlglblo, as a military weapon, hns lost out. Tho acroplano, on tho contrary that far reaching cyo that sees over immn. tnlns and around corners, has moro than Justified Itself. Within the z.in0 of activities nn army can no longer bs'rfln nny Iraportnnt chnngo of Imho or ndvanoo, or oven start a retreat, without Its bolng almost Instnnt'y known to tho enemy. Tho perilous work of tho Bpy, so lmportnnt n fow years ago; Is now largely takon over by tho nvlntlon corps, for n slnglo ncroplano with ono pilot and an observed ob-served can In fifteen minutes bring In moro accurate Information than a dozen spies could securo In twenty-four twenty-four hours, with tho additional great advantage of tho report being right ,up to tho mlnuto. Aid ns for bomb dropping, If hpmes and hospitals nnd churches nro still' to bo destroyed In so dastardly n fnshlon, tho ncroplano Is capablo of enough mischief to qulto, compcto wllh tho dlrlglblo. Tho ncro-plnne ncro-plnne Is so small n mark, so hard to see, and can change Its courso so suddenly and often thnt ho aerial guns hnvq fnl'en fnr -short of tholr oxpneted ofllcloncy. Whllo tho submarine has sent a largo number of unarmed morchrnt nnd passenger boats to tho bottom, It hns ns yet, perhaps' for want of opportunity, shown meager results as against men of war. All llfo Is nlort to protect Itsclr against nttnek nnd destruction. As Burbank says, tho. cactus hnd no spines until "it was ' threatened with annihilation by nnto-lopes, nnto-lopes, nnd tho suhmarlno hnd freo hand until recently. JVlrendy means hnvo been dovlscd which tend to limit lim-it tho possibilities of undersea crnft: They nro taken llko ilsh In wire nets; thoy nro set upon by ft mosquito fleet of small Speed boats, nrmod with ono pounders, whon thoy show themselves. them-selves. On. the other hand, tho sub-mnrlno sub-mnrlno has demonstrated most satisfactory satis-factory abilities for long voyages, ns for Instance, ono or our own subma rlnes recently mado the voyngo trom i San Pranclsco to Honolulu, n distance i or over 2000 miles without onco stopping stop-ping Its engines, llowoycr, for pro- tcctlon of our enormous coast lino, a I largo fleet of" submarines seems Inevitable. In-evitable. H. H. Windsor in Popular Popu-lar Mechanics Magazine i |