Bisbee daily review., 1914-08-30

struction to Zeppelins is far greater and I shall not be surprised 1T their work is confined to night work The aerial eyes of the German army will be found to be the monoplanes more SO than the biplanes, by reason of
 less superficial surface exposed to the fire of the enemy and reconnoit- ring win be executed only by pilots flying these types of machines, and from the information gathered by these means the work of the Huppe- lins will follow. The stupendous re- suits in getting information of the enemies positions cannot be eUagger. ated and the pilot can signal even be- fore Collapsing before the too-sure aim of aerial guns
 ITO further show that aeroplanes are Of little use in actual bomb drop ping it must be borne in mind that monoplane or biplane cannot be held still in the air-an enormous advant- age that belongs to the dirigible only. and one that can but insure correct. hess of markmanship.
 During many exhibitions of dummy bomb dropping in England that have arranged in the past few months, this
 fact has been most forcibly brought
 Co my mind in the almost impossibility
 of an aeroplane pilot properly gauging
 where a bomb would fall
 80 far as the efficiency of aero. planes In being attacked by or at- lacking dirigbles Is concerned. the former would have but a poor chance -aeroplane engines of the present day have an average range of speed of be-
 tween thirty-hve and eighty-fve miles an hour-that is to say, the machine
 must travel at thirtyfve miles per hour with the engine at its slowesv rev. olution. stoppage Of the volplaning or spiralling, an aerial tactic only possible with a stopped engine.
 No technical knowledge of flying . is necessary to appreciate that nrins at an enemy under such condition is almost useless. and where a decided vibration is continuous in flying, the possibility Of aiming correctly is even
 more minimized. A quick-fring Max i'm or other type of machine gun
 would be more telling. but the effect would be most possibly trivial
 Many will say that even few shots into the gas bag of a dirigibIe
 would be sufficient to put it out of
 action or incapacitate it.. but even that eyenuality has been provided
 for in the construction of the envel- ope being Of a substance that closes even large-sized perforatlon.
 Possibly the foregoing is one sided and pessimisuc opinion and no one more than myself would wish it to be shown up It may be that the use of the Zeppelins has been called upon far in advance of the time hoped for even by the German War Lords perhaps there are many points Of vul- nerability thai the advance of count eracting forces have kept time with. | but the fact must remain that, in
 night warfare. they will even at their present point of efficiency constitute factor unparalleled in the history of war armament as a machine Of wholesale horrifylng destruction.
 During the past few years there ! have been some references to the pos . sibility of poisonous gas bombs in
 the next war The next war is here and one hates to think of the awful
 possibilities of the use of such. more 1 SO if applied as a wholesale death dealing aerial war weapon.
 "The points have brought for
 ward are perhaps worth keeping in
 mind when the Kaiser's colossal fleet of Zeppelins is brought into play, as ! it win undoubtedly be during the next l few weeks perhaps days - perhaps
 even hours. Who can say2
 "There is another side to Che views l ] have expressed It may be that an this has been anticipated and that there are inventions to checlmate the
 possibilities of this unthinkable form
 of battle in which these colossal me
 diums Of death that breaking the sI-
 lence and darkness of night hurl ] thousands upon thousands into eter. iuity"