The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-08-26
Men GO To Planet Mars and Return
Is The Extraordinary RumOr In Paris

lscience, industry, money and worldly
position. The Emperor Francis-Jos-
ieph, the late King OF the Belgians the
Rothschild family and the Krupps of
Germany and the Schneiders of Creu-
sot financed and executed its vast or
ders for machinery.
And the radio-motor station of the
Kongo was the outcome.
How trust the world with weight
bearing rays? Obviously, it is a mis-
nomer The oxus-rays do not bear
weight, but rather excite the ether of
space, or control an infnitestimal part
of it's inconceivable energies along
track which seems to extend indefi-
nitely into space Where the Eiffel
tower sends it's weak Hertzian rays
scarcely 1000 miles before they get
lost by the curvature of the earth, the
lpylone of the Kongo, equally 300 yards
high, emits something like a creased
lightning track, out, out into the
depths along which radioplanes so
dash that speed and weight no longer
have a meaning.
They have not only attained Mars,
Ibut built a station on that planet in
the Isle OF Argyre. To it they have
flowed thousands of tons of freight
and hundreds of Kongo slaves to do
their manual work and within a few
wears they may make communica-
tion to the public that will revolution
lie society, change the ambitions of
the great and, even, probably induce
a universal brotherhood that may last
La long time! All this, mind you, ac-
cording to the rumor.
Meanwhile, it is dangerous to inter
.fere with them.
A Belgian adventuring from Brazza'
Vile in an aeroplane tells an extra
J lordinary adventure.
Intoxicated with his speed and the
scarlet sunrise streaked with gold, he
let the aeroplane go straight ahead al
, Ia mile a minute. Soon beneath him
stretched an ocean of greenery, the
Kongo forest, UNEMPLOYED by men, DO
/ main of the elephant and hippopota
mus. where lion and leopard SLIM
down to drink water at the river.
4 is the great forest of the world Jul
l of mystery and fear, where 1t is al
{ most impossible to cut paths. In vague
r Iclearings he imagined native villages
S of Stanley's ferocious dwarfs, oloodl
= cannibals, whose customs and mum
2 bers are unknown.
. The Belgian in his aeroplane begal
4 70 eat frightened. He turned back
e Suddenly, in the distance and abou
0 400 wards above his level, he beheld
a fantastic giant bird with two grea
h white wings of long rectangular form
e and a very wide tail, terminating IN
= triangle. behind a dazzling meta
+ screw that whirled with inconceivabl
e velocity.
The fantastic aeroplane approache
l. RAPIDLY, passed over him, descrlpin
e great circles without descending an
n dashed off to the north at term
e speed. But before it disappeared tn
l. belgian saw a flash, and an aerla
i Itorpedo missed him by few yard'
b. exploding beyond in an immens
IS globe of intense white flame. In
d unknown engine of destruction wa
;; evidently intended for himself, An
r thing within 200 yards of it Woul
have been simply carbonized!
1t Our best information of these prod
IL gies comes by way of a sick an
id starving Italian who arrived at Bra
s. zayille and died shortly after.
re- It was this Italian who drew, G
ID his deathbed rough plan. To say
ir time. a leaf was torn from the cove
m of an American magazine, where tt
earth was represented as Dathed
,e the rays of a sun, drawn out OF a
n proportion, in the upper right-han
" corner of the page, Tracing his d
d. sign over it with INK, he produced
re- Irude idea of radioplane in space c
d its wav to Mars, in the track OF ray
proceeding from the Kongo pylone'
He affirmed that he had passed
IN month at the KOngo station where
in had been condemned to death Tor
Mt neglect Of duty which nearly caused
as catastrophe, and managed to oscar
We through the fever-stricken torres
to without food, not daring to sleep co
ne tinually imagining himself pursued
cl- Subordinate engineer, picked up
IN the Turin municipal electric hgl
r. plant for his intelligence and push
understood part Of the strange IN
DO chinery that he had tended-and
d. NAMED in the profoundest ignoran'
en- and admiration Of the remainder