The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-04-17
A|RSH|PS FOR
USE IN WARP ARE
Kaiser Firm i'm Belief That Fly.
ing Machines Will Be
Great Factor.
GERMANY NOW HAS
FLEET OF FOURTEEN
While Working Thus Far on the
Offensive, the Defensive
Not Forgotten.
BY MALCOLM CLARKE,
ecjsl Cable Lo Tho Tribune,

Special Gable to The Tribune.
BERLIN. April 16.-It is not alone In
battleships and army corps that Germany
is pressing to the front in preparation
for the inevitable time when the sword
must decide the question of European ii
not world supremacy. From the time
Count Zeppelin demonstrated the fact
that he was not a visionary dreamer but
had solved the problem OF aerial navi
cation the German war office had never
wavcred in Its faith that the dirigible
airshlp would be a great IL not a con-
trolling factor in the next war in which
the Fatherland should engage and as
result the kaiser has at his disposal
fleet OF fourteen aerial warshIps rang
ing, from 40 to 15$ feet in length and
with speed ranging from 81 TO 3Ii miles
| an hour. There are nine more building
one nearly 500 feet long and another
having an estimated speed of fifty miles
| an hour.
| Working on Airships.
Ten. or a dozen factories and dock
| yards where airships arc manufactured
ON systematic lines are at work Twelve
| or fifteen permanent CARA ges-several Of
them elahorately equipped stations =
sea. and at inland centcrs. a special
| battalion OF nearly 1000 officers. enGi-
neers and men trained in all the eX-
lgcncies OF aerial navigation, is ready to
| take The air Germany'S great ord
nance makers. the Krupps and Ehrhardts
are pcrfectinG airship p-deStroying artillery
ana experimenting with guns and eX-
| ploSivcS ior offensive operations from a
| height Airship mancuvcrs have become
| regular feature OF the army's work,
Chain Of Stations.
The armys scheme of aerial defense"
| contcmplntcs chain Of permanent sta
tions which will eventually extend in a
sweeping seml-circle through the north
and east, The idea is that Germany
shall be fortified in the air along her en-
tire French and Russian frontiers. and
IN the area Ranking the sea. Every
| fortress within this area is said TO be
provided with one or more vessels. At
present military airshp stations arc
standing at Metz. Cologne, Frankfort,
modate two moro vessels Of the largest
| type Gas-seneratng plants are at
| tachcd 10 the military airship stations
which arc to nc duplicated gradually at
| all strategic points as the fleet" grows.
Airship Destroyers.
While working hard on the offensive
| programme. the defensive has not been
| neglected, The Krupps have perfected
| three alrsbip dcstroycrs. one stationary
hcldplece with an extreme range in height
armored motor car with an extreme
range of $3.50 yards and a naval piece
which viii hurl a forty-pound pUoiectile
| 10 the enormous height of IL 500 Yards
For all the Krupp guns a time fuse Is
! used. 1t is claimed that The fuse is per-
| tcctly safe to handle. yet so delicate ad-
jusled that it VIII dctonatc the shell i'm
mediately on piercing the hull of an air
! ship or balloon The Krupp airship des-
! troyinS guns are also provided with tTac-
crs, whereby the trajectory can he fol-
| lowed by day or night.
Future in the Air.
Germany is universally enthusiastic
over its future in the air" Aerial
navy leagues already number hundreds
OF thousands OF members. Several uni
Vcrsilics and technical colleges have
established acronaUtlcal professorShips.
| The kaiser Is encouraging the officers of
! his army and navy TO interest themselves
more and more in aerial navigation. The
richly endowed Motor NirShip Study So
cicty" composed OF millionaire captains
of industry, Is ready with unlimited funds
| to support any aerial enterprise, airship
or acroplane. which promises to increase
the iatherlands prowess ia the clouds.
Both the society and the army are build
| ing geroplancS of their own and of for
| cign systems. the German Wright COM
pany having perfected facilities FOR turn
| ing out five bipancS month at their
works I'm TcGcl. Ten machines arc al
ready in commission at the army's dis
poSal,
Excavations at Pergamon.
The Vossischc Zeitupg publishes an in
| tcreSting description of fresh results at
| tanned by the cNcdYatorS OF the Berlin
| Archaeological society or the site of Per
CANON. in Asia Mino,. the seat of tho
| Nttalid dynasty in the third aud second
centuries Il. G. Tho work described WAS
| carried out I'm the late autumn OF 1909
| Upon AN artificial terrace OF the city hill.
| which. as isolated inscriptions prove, WIS
| known as the "DcmctCr Terrace were
| discovered the remains of Il great sauct-
! uary and temple Of that goddess DR..
| IIepdng says that with the sanctuary.
| addition ~ god
dcss were altars Of AcSkcpios. Hcrmes.
| Helios. IeuS, kteSioS PcnthcioS and
others. OF special Interest is an impcr
dcciphcriug. was dedicated to " the nm
known gods" III this Interpretation is
right, 1t is the first confirmation ever
found for the famous passage in the
| .ircopaguS speech OF St Paul: For as
passed by aud behold your dcVutions.
found an altar with this inscription.