Show I I WRIGHT BROTHERS PROVE THE AEROPLANE FIT FOR WAR WARThe WARThe The wonderful performance of the frIght Brothers aeroplane at Fort ForI Myer which meets the requirements of the United States government Is added evidence that lit In the tue next war warwe warwe we will see the aeroplane employed ed iu in defense and attack The purchase of r the th aeroplane liy Ity the lie IS I for fOI war purposes und and therefore therefore the United States Is to the tise Ise of the aircraft in war var Armr officers and others are die cus cussing the lie merits of the lie aeroplane or 01 as n a means of attack In I An article in iii McClures for August Is written by men who ha have C been asso latel with Count Zeppelin In his ex cx mill and they hey claim the ho Zeppelin lin airship al wilt will Ion ize warfare doing away with lie employment of large larse masses of men in anti and cavalry and tho ho battle of the thc future one between a afew afew few expert artillerymen men in the air and their opponents on terra tena firma firm Present artillery Is for the tho Krupps hue have a ne new typo type to meet tho ho emergency It Is to curry a blazing shell that will set fire to tile the gaseous contents of ho airships aIrshIp causing an explosion and in im mediate destruction of lie craft lie ra raie e of this gln gun frIng directly up upward ward is limited 10 so mich much so that the tho writers II in McClures do donot donot not beleve It would proe especially formidable When the distance speed and erratic movement of tho th giant ail air slut are aro taken Ino into consideration one what an elusive marlc I It Itis is ii nut But In Opinion of these writ wrt er those on the 1 ill find it ft Imp to le the he fire of the air airship airship ship 1 Ii will 1 he be with rIl rapid flo fire guns anti and a machIne rilo rifle pump In Ing Olt out bullets a a minute on al troops within two miles exactly as I a aman man til the stream of a garden hose hoso against t q tree The range of the airships gims guns Is greaty greatly increased d on account ot of their positIon while tle lie artillerymen belo belov ni I it sible sibl to reply effectively because the target wl will be e constantly shifting The result If cavalry or infantry are aro over a countr country patrolled b by airshIps they will be annihilated This moans the lie end of laud land war as we now know knor I It In commenting on the lie foregoing the Pitsburg Dispatch says say sayA saysA A thrillIng picture indeed It shows only side of the he question Ma Ia It not bo lt that lie tho efficiency o otho of the tho sn for shooting at aIrships T Thins ts ben been minimized From another I source comes the information that hint each of oC those these aerial guns Is wih wIth a rn D By mealS of oC this apparatus the he gunner gunnel ha has only to al allow allow low for the moton motion Of the airshIp at aL which Ie he is aiming The he of the aerial b 1 n are so arranged that the muzzle may mar be e turned II lii any dl dI almost Instantaneously and aImed at any aIrship that ma may sUII sud suddenly denly enl change chanse Us is I It Is said that lint Uie Ue weapon also contains other advantages which have not Jet iet been made and whIch wl will en enable able It IL to I light ht the he airship on c lr terms TI There ere can le be no question that the Ule In sonic some form or other Is destined to play an import important ant part in warfare of the lie future but iUt to 0 the layman Il i appears that the In have their In rather too glowing colors The he wrier writer In the Dispatch fals fails to take lute Into the lie ties of oC the tes aIrshIp or aeroplane mo lag Ing over an arm army or fortifications at eight night Even Een though guns be invented capable of bringing down own airships In daylight at nIght with te the aid of searchlights these hose guns would be or of I service serice owing to lo the ho speed of tho he aerial craft in flight I a J |