Show hints to the next war while mile the navy ib 26 continuing its mock combats off the hawaiian coast to gain what light it can on modern warfare without possessing wa a sufficiency of modern equipment the army has also been doing some experimenting the result of sheds r bed far more light upon what is lively to happen when next the bg nations get into conflict on the Call california fornia coast two tuo french frelich gung uns made 24 hits on a moving target in 24 shots the guns behig from place to place by trae tractors tors that shows wonderful Aonder ful marksmanship but wo we imagine any enemy attacking the aut will come within two miles tho the range of the guns wins airplanes from the enemy shi ships P s or long range guns will put defense guns out of commission bafo before re those ships undertake a landing unless the shore guns are pro tooted by superior force in the air bea even the Ila hawaiian wahan testa proved that the ot oti cr er experiment was made at kelly field san antonio when wile stimmy soldiers in a field nero mowed down and dummy du ammy lorries and i tanks inks were siere destroyed by a rtin of machine gua gun bi bullets diets and TNT bombs from airplanes airplane flying over against which there js is no defense defene e save that of other airplanes in im sufficient force to drive off the attacking planes gas was vas not used bit ba the mind can easily visualize what would happen i if gaa gas cabs vero nere dropped na stead of explosive bombs A far wider hider area of Q di astl tl would be the result so it seems that whether made to prove the effectiveness of air attack and need of air defense or to disprove it all experiments agree in proving PrOvit 19 that superior fr force in the air will determine the next jt tt would be a crime to place in n the field an arm of soldiers and leave them exposed to attack from the sky I 1 by a cloud of enemy airplanes As a nation A e constantly assert that our ann annam ament of whatsoever nature is solely for defense if wo we really mean it we khouli let these lessons of our heiple helplessness and exposure to successful attack without a superior force in the air air eier deeply into our autler understanding standing and und proceed to create that air defense as speedily as poi ible A A su perd gilt is a weapon 0 ZE offen off anali birj the more we have of them thela the less likely other nations are to bave faith in our assertion that we arm for defense only one of them the costs alone ha u much asa qa huge fleet that is purely defensive in its character the situation is obvious ob ious |