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Show . ' The Areoplane in 'I' War 1 " i ' ' Fifteen hundred men Anally decld- . ed the bottle of Waterloo. V l A When the remnant of Noy'a superb ' ' command, broken and bleeding reach- ' i ' lng the Plateau whereon Wellington I had watched the conflict for hours, 1 he turned to the 1G00 picked men who J had been lying for hours on the, i , ground and swearing under their , restraint and shouted: "Up guards i ' and at them!" Inresponse they sprang up and I ' cleared the Plateau of Frenchmen. ' I When we read of what air men are j doing In the present war, It Is nof , impossible to imagine that In some ' crisis of the fight three hundred aero; J j planes each carrying Ave men might L be the deciding factor. They could. I' at a signal come from twenty miles ; J j hway in twenty minutes, land their , ', men and return for another twelve I.? hundred men and be back in an I 3 ' j hour, or without returning take on board explosives enough to material- ly strengthen the final assault. This ' may not be possible in this war, but , it will be In the next. If after this war is over the nations decide that more wars are to be necessary until man through suffering and through ' tears finally decides that Justice hnd, - ' mercy are better arbiters of differ- I , ences than the brutalities of war. v J Goodwin's Weekly i |