The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-11-13

this craft could have started a fight
from the deck of a battleship, could
have even flown over the foreign yes
sells and dropped projectiles upon
them. At any rate, it could have so
located them as to make plain the
campaign and the dropping OF shells
from the ships.
Again, should a hostile feet anchor
outside New York harbor a fleet OF
aeroplanes could make its position so
precarious that it would be difficult for
il to hold its place While the hostile
feet lay at anchor there would be the
horrible uncertainty as TO it's safety.
At any moment of day or night
bomb might be dropped from the sky
that would spread destruction. An
army loaded on transports would be
a fair mark for the airman, and two
OF these in a machine that cost $1,000
might destroy an entire army and
break up vast campaign.
Aeroplanes 10 Control.
Taking another view OF it, there is
the possibility that a foreign fleet
might approach New York and that
this meet might be equipped with aero
planes. These airships might take
nights from the decks OF the vessels at
night. sail over New York, drop Greek
fire or some other of those horrors of
the ancients in the city and destroy
il. There would be the necessity of
repelling this air feet. In such cir
cumstances the atr-men OF New York
should vastly Outnumber those of the
invaders In order TO save the city. I'm
der these circumstances the magma
ton can easily picture the desperation
y.
the lives OF thousands OF his fellow
men at stake and perhaps sacrificing
himself by crashing his machine into
that of his enemy while they all tum-
bled ANONYMOUSLY among the sky
scrapers below.
Carrying the campaign still further.
il is easy 10 see the manner in which
nation equipped with aeroplanes
might anchor outside any port and
demand Whatever she might, with the
alternative of destruction in case the
request is refused. The things that
we might do would be so dire that Of
tense against US would be unlikely.
UnIeashing the Fire Demon.
In fact. the men Of the Aeronautieal
Reserve hold that with the develop
ment of a competent fleet OF airmen, /
war Will be come impossible. The de-
yelOpment of that fleet will accom-
plish that toward which civilized ma
lions have been struggling for many
years. IL seems no more than a COM
nonsense fact that with the airmen
at work the destruction of any city IN
the world will become easily possible,
and that 1t viii be impossible for the
attacked country to prevent that de-
struction. The airships OF the enemy
hax Htra Hrrs hQf aifT 10Th
and set il on fire in a dozen places.
1t would be impossible TO SO police the
air with defensive airships as to pre-
vent this The airship at night, trav-
cling seventy miles an hour, is diff
cult thing TO keep track of. Grahame-
White recently flew over the French
navy anchored at Vincennes, and
those vessels tried to keep him To-
Gated with their searchlghts. Occa-
sionally he was seen, but lost again in
a moment. The thing was impossible.
The battleship is TO a certain extent
invulnerable. The bombs that may be
carried by an airship are not such as
would prove especially effective to-
ward its destruction even if they
could be rightly placed. But the de-
struction of the cities in the enemy's
country is the simplest thing in the
world, and unpreventable.
So it becomes evident that with one
first-class country arrayed against an
other it is merely a question of which
will be destroyed first. There would
be but fire, destruction. carnage. War
would become but the destruction of
nOncOmbatants, OF women and chill
dren. II would become a thing I'M
thinkable A civilized world could
not tolerate such diabolical destruc-
ton as would result from a war in the
day of the air machine. Universal
peace would Of necessity have 10
come.
Greatest Event in History.