Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-09-16
ENGLISH INVASION
Is GERMAN DREAM

New York, Sept. Interpretations
for al invasion of England by air.
ships are now being rushed to compile
rection of Count Zeppelin. according
to the story told today by Felix Wilkes.
who returned with his family on board
the Holland-American liner Rotterdam
after a long visit at Cologne and other
points in Germany and Austria.
AS Mrs. Wilkes has relatives in
Cologne and Mr.. Wilkes is himself of
German ancestry, he had carte blanch
In military circles. and probably
brought back with him more definite
information about the movements of
the kaiser's army than any of the
refugees who have preceded him.
Americans here may not appreciate
it." said Mr.. Wilkes, but England is
the main objective point of Germany
in this war. was in Cologne for
three weeks-in fact, I left there only
a week ago Thursday-and I found out
that the Germans nave the greatest
hatred of the English, whom they hold
directly responsible for the war. The
purpose Of the army is to crush Eng
land, and h present operations are
all directed to that end.
LAS I was given to understand from
reliable sources, the kaiser's plan is to
cross the channe as soon as Paris is
either captured or invested. Calls is
the port which is to be made the base
OF operations. and the movements Of
German troops in nothern France are
unquestionably to be directed against
the English.
Twenty eight Ready.
AT the present time a fleet of %
Zeppelins are in readiness, and there
are four different companies which are
Working day n night manufacturing
more. Each factory can turn out one
of these onOinoC nf DESTINATION q p,,o,%1,
at he cost of 600 900 francs apiece. All
are equipped with mountaineering bas-
kets II guns, and Germans display
the utmost confidence that, acting in
conjunction with the battleship fleet,
the aerial fleet will be able to put Eng
land at its mercy.
THE usefulness of the Zeppelins, as
you know. has been definitely proven.
1 was talking with one Of the officers
of the Zeppelin which flew over Liege
on 5, which was the first time
an afrship was ever used in actual war
rare. The nervous excitement of the
flight was so great that every one Of
thec crew were abed two days after their
return to Cologne. Several bombs were
dropped into Ltege. and the Belgian
artillery fire at the aerial visitor. Three
of h compartments We're punctured
with bullets: but this seemed in no
way to make the airship
able.
New krupp Cannon.
"You Ia have learned by now that
the big deciding factor in all the sue
cesses of the German army has been q
brand new kind Of Krupp
greater than even the German people
realized had been made for their army.
No pictures or full descriptions of this
gun have yet been printed. 1 saw sew
eral of them being rushed to the front,
and IAN give you some little idea of
their make-np.
The bore of the gun is AZ cent?
meters. or 16 inches. three inches bigger
than n cannon previously made.
They are great. bulky machines. drawn
by motor power. the barrel of the can
non alone Weighing two tons. The
shell which they fire weighs 2.1oo
pounSs. and an artillery officer told me
they will go through q feet of con-
crete and then explode. You can
readily see from this why Namur and
otner places fell almost without resist
ance. Krupp employees operate these
guns, as none Of the army men have
yet had an opportunity to practice with
them