The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-04-01
AIR WARS HORRORS
PICTURED BY MAXIM
With Flying Machines No
Home Will Be Secure, Wom-
en- Nowhere Safe"
MANY AIR FLEETS NECESSARY
In Future God VIII Fight or the Side
Of the Strongest Aerial Artillery
viii Obliterate Frontiers-Invalids
and CrippIes May Be Enlisted.

| W'lI OpllteTate FTontlcTs-inNd''us
and crIppIes May Be Enlisted.
New York y.-"Napoleon's die.
tum that God fights on the side of the
strongest artillery will no longer hold
! true. In the very next war between
/ civilized countries the world will see
that God fights on the side that has
the strongest flying machines and the
! most of them"
This was part of a striking word.
| picture of what the next war will be
like which Hudson Maxim, inventor
and scientist, painted for his hearers
at the Automobile Club of Americas
"Aeronautic Evening"
He predicted among other things.
| that every village after awhile will
! have to have its brigade of batteries
of field guns for the destruction of air
| ships, just as it now has its volunteer
| fire department War. he said will
become once again as horrible as 1t
was in the days of hand-to-hand fight
| ing.
battle" Mr.. Maxim said. AN invad
ing army carries its frontiers with 1t.
| The flying machine will obliterate all
| frontiers, and there will be no city or
village that may not be possible
battlefield.
Future wars will not be decided
as heretofore by artillery laundering
from hill to hill Artillery, however.
will not by any means be done away
with. The field gun will still eat up
shrapnel, and the big navy cannon
will still shake the shores. But every.
thing will no longer depend upon the
conquering OF positions with artillery
fire.
Although flying machines will not
be able to carry any artillery, yet an
army Of raiders with the raiders out.
II. will be able to reconnoitre and
| alight in defenseless places, destroy
bridges. rip up railroads. cut com.
munications. burn towns, blow up
magazines, stores and powder mills
las in future wars these visitations
may come any night to any inland
town, no home will be safe. The fare
OF the torch and the CLINT of the sword
may be the first visions of an awak.
ening. Death and rapine may any
moment come laundering at the door
mo longer will war be confined to
restricted areas whence women and
children may be removed to places OF
safety. There will be no refuge
whittier they can fly from the Huns
and Vandals of war Gunpowder can
no longer effectually bar the invader.
The aeronaut can laugh at forts.
coast Notifications and battleships
The flying machine opens human his.
tory again to the page when there
were no forts along the frontiers and
no quick-firing guns; when blood ard
Drawn alone stood between home.
loved ones and the fierce barbarian;
when wolves of rapine, murder and
slavery howled beyond the wall
when love and life were victory's re.
ward and death. or worse, the forfeit
for defeat.
we must have our air fleets mum.
erous enough and strong enough to
| meet and repel any invasion of our
sky; and in time OF war, around our
entire national horizon aerial scouts
and aeroplane destroyers by night and
| day must stand ready perched to ny
TO the attack.
1T may come that every country
town must have its battery of field
guns supplied with shrapnel and can
ister, as it now has its fire brigade.
while possibly every able-bodied man
Invalid and cripple. will be provided
with side arms and rife, as in the old
pioneer days they were armed To
meet the menace of the red Indian
devils.
"A bill calling for an appropriation
OF $5OO,O0O for aeronautical work has
Just failed to pass Congress. The
Dill ought to have been for ST, 900 600
and should have been passed by a
unanimous vote. Five million dollars
is less than half the cost of the lare
est battleship."
Mr.. Maxim did not mention the new
noiseless gun invented by his relative
Hiram Percy Maxim, which will also
add to the terrors OF modern warfare