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Show m uu H . BATTLES TO BE FOUGHT H ' I IN THE AIR. B . 1 Zeppelins over France, England and Hj the city of Saloniki prove the Teu- B tons possess a great number of those B aircraft and have an ambitious pro- B fi gram now being worked out. H j ) We still fail to see the advautage to H be gained by the raids in which Ht bombs are dropped on cities where H j the casualty lists are confined to non- I combatants, men, womep and chll- H dren. The effect on the English peo- H pie is to arouse them to the utmost effort in war preparations, Including enlistments. The adverse moral effect must be very small, as the English are not a people to quail before frlghtfulness. Zeppelin attacks on warships, gun factories, piers and all the material factors that enter into war are justifiable. jus-tifiable. The Zeppelin raids may have been intended to strike at those resources, re-sources, but so far, apparently, they Lave failed. The French arc making very extent sivc preparations for a greater and stronger fleet of aeroplanes. At present pres-ent the Germans seem to hold an advantage ad-vantage in aerial warfare, but reports I from Paris are to the effect that the new French air machines will surprise sur-prise tho world. With spring the struggle will be on a more terrible scale than at any time since August, 1914, and the promise prom-ise Is that the battles In the air will not be the least of the horrors of the war. |