Show USE OF BALLOONS IN WAR weather in manchuria Is too damp to get the best work mukden nov 21 correspondence of the associated press kotae inter estling conclusions reached in practical work in the field have been given by air bandt who has been in charge of the balloon corps in the far east during the greater apart of the war he still things the balloon has a distinct future in warfare and there have been a number ot occasions when the balloons did valuable work in scouting but on the whole ho bays that the weather in manchuria is too damp tor balloons to be at their best it has proved exceedingly difficult to et photographs to of any value when the balloon was low the vibration owing to ar was excessive light was seldom favorable and frequently the balloon was too high for the pictures to be of any use in the attack on Pou lone tree hill he says there was presented a very interesting panorama ot the battlefield but it was often impossible to tell with certainty which were russian lines and which were japanese the best work of the balloon corps was dono during the retreat from llao yang when bo sas for scouting purposes they were really valuable often almost indispensable |