| Show arming for defense N NEWS from london is to the effect that the british air ministry devised de a new giant bombing piano plane and Is is building 50 of them h said i to be capable of traveling at the rate of miles achour an hour to to drop bombs with considerable accuracy from a height of four miles which is far above any danger zone a from antiaircraft anti aircraft guns the defense against such attack is by a fleet of fast fighting planes capable of overtaking nver taking surrounding and shooting down the big bomber just as small birds attack a big one or wolves a buffalo it might be asked what does england expect to bomb with new giants of the Is it london or liverpool or glasgow I 1 course cours enot nut it is paris berlin rome or some other foreign city bombing boin bing plane are weapons of offense not of defense it may be argued that may be used for defense as well offense since sinco they might fight an attacking navy but that arguza ent can net be urged for ts t new capou of war it could attack an in bading fleet only after whatever aerial defense that fleet possessed lad been swept away by smaller planes and when that had been done doue tie tle smaller craft could finish brish the job all war equipment our jur own included is maintained on the plea that it I 1 is s necessary yec essary for defeo def emit all nations scout the idea that they contemplate attack yet they all aronds themselves with war agencies that are purely offensive off in their character used almost exclusively clu ciu for making war away from home of course it is a military axiom that the offensive is the best defense and that if it possible tho the horrors of war should be transferred from homo home to the soil of the en my tiny this was abt t germany to invade belgium through france from the german cerman IT rr gitary J aary point of view yiew that was purely a defensive mc e it placed laced u arinee on the defensive and brought the evils of and battle to the french people instead of the germans if all ah nation nations were prepared for defense only and not for invasion we may be durei sure there would uld never be another war |
