The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1915-08-17
British Press Urges Building d
Immense Aerial Fleet to Bomb
and Destroy the German
Works and Bridges
PROPOSE TO STOP
ENEMY'S SUPPLIES
Expert Tells How to do i and Noted
Novelist Joins in Plea; 0nIy
Way to Smash Lines of
Teutons.
BY WILBUR s. FORREST.

Omitted Press Staff Correspondent
London, Aug. 5.--(By mail Eng
lands salvation is in the air.
Batter down the Rhine bridges with
daily air raids and trench warfare In
France is ended.
Send thousand aeroplanes with
five bombs each over the huge Krugg
munitions factory at Essen and Ger
many is seriously crippled.
Destroy the nine bridges over the
Meuse that daily make possible the
transport of arms and ammunition to
the German armies in the west ami
tn German armies will be on their
knees.
Build or buy thousand aeropIanes
Immediately, or two thousand. or ten
thousand. and England will win.
This parcel of advice is the talk of
England today. 1t is being printed in
the newspapers, talked on the streets
and handed to the government in par
lament, through the war office and
the admiralty
1t comes from England civilian STRAIT
egists. They are agreed that Bngiand's
future battles must be won In the up
per stratum.
1t was L. Blin Desbelds, lecturer in
aeronautics at the Royal Military acad-
emy, Woolwich, and one of the best
known aeronautical experts in Eng
land who first told the government
that it should create and support .
ministry of aviation. Today the gov
ernment is said to be considering such
ministry.
Today Desbleds is asking the gov
ernment to add to its air fleet q thou
sand aeroplanes at once.
Collaborating with other experts
Desblads has gathered the following
Information in support OF his aerial
offensive and handed 1t to the govern
ment.
That an average of one military train
every ten minutes crosses each Of the
fifteen bridges spanning the Rhine
They carry food. ammunition and rein
forcements to the German armies in
the west. This means that during
every twenty-four r~nri; 144 military
trains pass into France and Belgium
over each of these Rhine bridges or
2160 over all of them. The German
armies are wholly dependent on this
constant supply and are provisioned in
reserves for four days only
That every ounce Of supplies carried
by this steel caravan must cross nine
bridges spanning the Meuse to reach
the bulk of the German forces now
holding back the British and French
on the great line across the continent
Desbleds has further suggested TO
the government that daily air raids
over both the Rhine and Meuse must
seriously hamper the enemy's supply.
One thousand aeroplanes on this duty
within a week, Desbleds suggested.
could possibly not only cut off the vast
supplies Of the enemy but render thu
German campaign in the west prac-
tically impossible.
What Desbleds has told the govern
ment about bridges he has also ap-
piled to Krupps at Eessen.
One of the most vigorous supporters
of DesDleds and his theory is H. @.
Wells. noted English author. But
Wells goes further than Desbleds. Ha
is urging through series of newsps-
per articles the building or buying Of
10000 aeroplanes and says about the
ultimate result of the war there can
then be no doubt"
'Tf we can smash Essen. we can
lhamstring Germany says wells. we
want aeroplanes going to and coming
from Germany like ants about an ant
hill. like bees between a hive and cloT-
er. but going each with its two or
three hundred pounds Of high exrs9
| sives, and coming back empty, FROM