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Show AIRMEN CAN END THE WAR. Flying low in the late battles on the British front, the Allied aviators performed per-formed extraordinary deeds. The airmen air-men alone, at critical points in the retreat on the Somme, defeated enemy attacks, breaking up the waves of on-com.ng on-com.ng Huns with machine gun fire, and in places they filled in gaps In the line of defense. On some days, according to the official report, they dropped over 50 tons of explosives on troops on the march, on railway junctions, junc-tions, roads, transport trains, and also fired in a single day 250,000 rounds When the German troops had crossed cross-ed the Aisne and were well on their way to the Marne, in the last drive for Paris, what an opportunity there was for a large fleet of airplanes to attack at-tack the troops in the open. A drive of that kind would be made almost Impossible, if America had 20.000 or SO.000 bombing air machines. Young men who are in our air service serv-ice believe the war will be ended when America reaches its objective in airplane production. Nearly all our airmen are now con-I con-I verted to the idea that, instead of de pending on breaching the German trenches, when the Allied offensive starts, the drive must be made through the air. All German lines of communi- I cation back of the trenches must be bombed day and night. Bridges must be wrecked, roads made impassable and depots of supplies destroyed. Furthermore Fur-thermore cities and town3 within reach must be pounded incessantly. The heart of Germany must be made to feel the horrors which the German policy of frightfulness has inflicted on others. With the ripening of the crops this summer, the grain fields of Germany are to be fired by the dropping of phosphorus. This is carrying home to Germany the firebrands which the Germans had planned to place in the hands of the I. W. W. in the United States. |