The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-12-17
GERMANS ALIVE To
VALUE OF A|RSHIPS
Brightest and Most Daring of
Young Officers Assigned
to Aerial Corps.
WILL SPEND VAST SUMS
Country Hopes to Be as Well
Equipped as Rival French
Nation.
WILL SPEND VAST SUMS
BY MALCOLM CLARKE.


Special taDlo To nc l lllnuft
BEELIN. Dec. l6.-GermaHy has awak-
cned TO the necessity of pushing ahead
in the line r. acrouaUtics az an adjunct
10 her military preparedness. The use %
the aerorlanc by the Italians in rripol
has demonstrated TO the war Office the
superiority of tho heevier-than- air ma
chine over Ihc diriSlble for war purposes
and II has been decided 10 spend 81 .ooc.-
600 OIL acropl3ncs during The coming year
Work on The drgi3ics. 10 which aiten-
ton has been luainlY given In the past.
vii! not be anondonca bus they WI play
a secondary part iu Gecmnuy'S air plans
The work Will be done with the usual
German thorouGhucss, and II is CONFIDENT
ly believed that within year or two inc
KaiScE's army will be as well equipped rs
Is that OF France, the acknowledged lead
or In army aoronautlCs.
Tine whole OF Germany IS 10 be divided
into various districts, each having It's
the number of German dvlDg machines in
use by the end Of the next year will eH-
coed $50.
The brightest and most daring Young
this work, and extra inducements in the
way OF rank and pav will he offered them
as a reward for originality and prof.
cheney.
Prince Takes Air Voyage.
The crown prince. after Distinguishing
u
the imperial chapce!lors policy in q. very
ostcnta tious manner in the rcichstag. de
teruincd to thoroughly enjoy the re
maindcr Of his four days leaNc from
panZiS and military service. On the fol-
lowing afternoon he motored out To Jo-
harnistllal 10 the fine aerodronc where
tho Zeppelin and Parseval diriCiblcS have
their sheds, aad where long VOWS. OF
hangers are erected HIS imperial high
ness announced his intention OF going Tor
sail in the Zeppelin Scllwaben. aud the
other passengers were seven In number.
One Of the lady passengers. wife or a Ser
Dn merchant. was busy writing picture
postcards during tho trip, which lasted
two hours, and rather tlmldly asked the
prince il he would give his autograph.
With his usual friendlinesS, his Impe rial
hshness complied. and learning that the
card was going to an American lady in
California. be wrote a few words Of greet
Ing in English,
Ends Celebrated Case.
Frau Cecile Mayer the widow OF rail-
way navy. has pithdraw'n her lurther
plea before The Berlin courts for the
surrender 10 her Of the boy known as
Count Joseph Kwilccki. on the ground
that he was in reality her son. This
which Count Hector Kwiecki, distant
cousin. claimed the inheritance TO large
family estates IN Poland on the ground
estate, vas not The son, q Count Ignaz
kwilecki, and his wife. but had been OBJ
tanned from Frau Cecilc MAYER and
passed of by them as their own.
Herr Adolf Boehm, the well known
composer shot himself with revolver in
his wife'a nai in Berlin. Herr Boebm
and his wife, famous AS Frau Won Eudert
had been living apart. and the day be-
lore his death the husband, in view OF an
impending divorce, had proposed TO his
wife's sister, who rejected him II is
also said that the deceased belonged 70 a
Wieshaden club, % per cent of whom
take their lives annually. Frau Bochm
is ono OF the hest known singers at the
Royal Opera house IN Berlin.
Invent Bomb Gun
The krupps. who supply guns 10 the
German empire aud TO hair the world he :
sides. have now invented a terrible
weapon known as tho bomb gun 1t fires
a huge, very brittle bomb containing 100
pounds Of chemicals. AS it bursts it
jills the air with poisonous gases In
which no human being can live The
gases from one bomb will kill evervone
within a radius OF 500 yards, This wes non
apparently Will make it Impossible for
soldiers TO remain I'm open trenches In
experiments on animals with the bombs
1t was found that the fumes turned them
green. The new "boom cannon" rcseuts
some striking differences In appcarance
AS we'll as construction from anv other
type OF modern ordnance, In fact II
moro resembles n baliSta whose projcctiln
force is produced By powder than a gun
proper II is primarily INTENDED to come
10 the rescue of the infantry during tho
storming OF a fortress.