Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1912-10-24
AERIAL WARFARE IS
ADVANCED IN FRANCE
No Longer An Experiment,
War Department Now Plans
classification.
FRENCH HAVE GOOD RECORD
law Governing Election Of Immortal
Soon to Be violated-Juven.
lie Crime Is On the
Increase.
HAVE GOOD RECORD

Paris.-Special: The art of aer1M
warfare has advanced to suc IA stage
that army ae%roplanes will now have
to be divided into different classes, in
the same way as are naval vessels. in
the opinion of the heads of the French
army aviation corps. Light and mobile
a~eroplanes easily taken to pieces and
transported in wagons which could go
anywhere like ammunition wagons
will have to be attached to the front
to act as the eyes OF the army. just
as the cavalry now has it's own ma
chine guns. so it will in future have its
own aeroplanes. In h rear of the
army the heavy armored aeroplanes
with high wv motors will be i'm
stalled in aviation camps. These ma
chimes will be the battleships of the
air, just as the first line aeroplanes
will lie the destroyers.
Basing his observations on the per-
formances Of the two dirigibles which
took part in the recent French wal
m-anoeuvres. a Frenc expert concludes
that the dirigible in its present form ts
mobility of the portable balloon sheds
he declares to be a myth. A dirigible
requires 800 men to handle it. while
three squadronS of a~eroplanes need
only $50.
The swifter of the two dirigibles en-
ONO dI liz kOCClIl Go NOOR
more than ten hours to reconnoitre a
radius of 250 miles, while h least
rapid biplanes took only two hours and
a half to scout a region of 100 miles,
and other aeroplanes three hours five
minutes to travel abou 200 miles.
Counting from the day of departure
for the the sc army airmen
who a nj accident of any kind. out
of the total numbcr of ~ engaged in
the operations. flew about 1920 miles
altogether. The remaining Is who
broke down aggregated 1924 miles.
Adding the 1884 miles flown by the
eight %aeroplans OF the reserve, the
total distance flown by the aeroplanes
engaged in the manoeuvres amounted
to 27,528 miles.
A hitherto inviolable tradition in con-
nection with the election of an I'm
mortal" or member of the French
Academy, will be violated in the case
Of General Lyautey. the successor OF
Henri Houssave. Owing to his absence
at the head of the French army in Mo-
rocco he will not be able to call formal
ly OF the other 80 members of the q
envy before his election on October 81.
OF the three candidates for the seat
left vacant two have formally with
drawn, leaving General Lyautey as the
sole candidate. Tha eminent soldiers
inevitable election is O matter for
popular rejoicing. since recent deeds
in Morocco have made him q national
| hero.
In connection with the election some
body has unearthed from the constitu-
ton of the academy a legally enacted
article which expressly forbids solicita-
ton of votes for election, the purpose.
naturally, of the 30 visits. Older acad-
emicians say that the discovery Of the
curious article will render life DESC
late for them. as the calls of distin-
I guished seekers after one of Frances
highest honors have been always de-
lightful.
Juvenile crime is increasing In an
| alarming way i'll France, according to
the recently published statistics of the
courts of Justice for 1910.
Some SO per emf Of all persons ac-
cused of crime are minors. A similar
tendency has been observed in Eng
land and Germany, and the question is
receiving the serious thought of GRIM
inologists.
A second revelation of the tables is
the remarkable preponderance of half
educated people among criminals, as
contrasted with we'll educated and
altogether educated ones. The we'll or
fairly we'll educated contribute about
half as many culprits as do the totally
i~lliterate. u it is from the class Of
meagerly educated hat all but a tri-
fling number of INSIDERS spring.
Crimes against property a de-
creased notably in number. the result.
it is said. OF the exceptional severity
with which such matters are treated
not only by judges but by juries.
The same a scarcely be said for
crimes of violence against persons.
French juries, in particular, being all
too ready to wax sentimental over the
pleas of passion, temptation, and so
on. invariably put forward by accused
persons.
Parisians have again demonstrated
their love of the aged by the lively in
terest they have taken in the person.
alities of the five men to whom the
Emperor of Russia presented medals at
the centenary of the battle OF Boro-
dino. or Moscova. Every one Of the
recipients was a veteran soldier from
| that conflict, the oldest being 122 years
of age.
A Tonsoriai Incident.
From the New York Tribune.
Henry r. Williams. when president Of
the Puget sound extension of the Chicago.
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