The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-08-26
National Defense Problems
VIH-.Lesson, Of the War--New Weapons.
BY Erederic ). Haskin.

.ici j Haskin.
similar to that Of sunkan mine and
1.-THE damage ts far greater than that
.tof the old type contact bomb.
Each Of these bombs weights about
eighteen pounds and is Fitted with
lsteeering yanes to insure Its steady
course through space ana MAKE GER
tain that 1t strikes head-one. They
iare dropped from specially con
istructed apparatus which enables the
Iimarksman to sight" his target and
Idrop the bomb with reasonable
lchance Of hitting the target.
The Terrible .tSky-Dart-- =
lpon OF aerial warfare. first introduced
by the French and later adopted by
.Eall the lighting forces In Europe.
They consist of pieces Of steel, about
4 the size of a fountain pen and quite
laharp. At the blunt end they are
CHARTERED, like the feathers upon an
barrow, to insure their direct flight
downward. One Of the American
ofacers detailed as a military observer
aboard dug up a dart of this nature
which had struck the helmet OF a.
mounted soldier, passed completely.
Through his body and rnat Of his
horse and buried itself a foot in the
frozen ground!
Hand in hand with the develop
ment of the submarine torDedo-the
only means OF defense possessed by
the wasps Of war. The torpedo used
In the Russo Japanese war in 1904
is little more than q toy compared,
with Its counterpart of decade later
The modern torpedo has fair chance
Of hitting a target at six miles, after
covering the Intervening space at
rate of forty knots an hour, and 10
| is conf idently predicted that torpedoes
will soon be made that VIII be capa-t
, Bile of range of twelve or fourteen
miles.
Rear Admiral Bradley A. Ffske,
the experiment OF launching torpedoes
from hydro-planes or sea-planes az
night because of the tact that the
submarine ia PARTIALLY powerless ar
| ter dark This may give rise TO an
other form of naval warfare-of
Observation-Disclosures work, a comDina-
ton of these tWP twentieth century
faztastic lighting machines
/ The Wireless in War.
l what the submarine is to the sea
/ and the aeroplane is to the air, the
] wireless is to the land forces of a. ma
/ ton at war, and many have been the
/ improvements devised upon the for
4 merly known systems Of land scout
ling by means of lN,rtaDIe wireless
i stations, partically invisvfble from q
i distance and easily concealed IN
lhay-stack OF chimney There is
lstory of the discovery BY the Ger
mans of field wireless station IN
the chimney of chateau which had
4 for several weeks been occupied as
head uuarters of the invading army
4 The operator had been sealed up with
\ his instruments and considerable
A supnIy of food. A small opening INTO
i the room used by the German field
oficers gave him his Information and
iitis practically certain that many m
4 portant messages we've nasned out or
finally discovered and destroyed. This
operator escaped under cover OF dark
ness and upon his sending instru-
ment was found the single French
phase. .sN,importe' Never mind.
The knapsack wireless-the small
est of the progeny of the big towers
with their 3,0O0-mile radtuses.l
weighs but eighty pounds and can pc
divided so as to be easily transport
ael Nv four soldiers. It can DE erecs-
ed in a very short time and has
radius of five to seven miles. manN
testify q great Improvement upon the
| old method Of using mounted order
lies to relay news Of the enemy's adj
vances.
The cavalary wireless. or the
..whiskers of the army" as it is
known to the British Tommtes, is the
big brother Of the knapsack wireless
| It weighs $40 pounds and can pc
carried by four horses. The radius
of communication is about thirty
miles and the time to unpack ana
erect the station is only ten minutes.
The automobile wireless is still
larger form of portable apparatus Tor
air communication. having a radius
of 200 miles and an endurance OF nYe
hours on a single charge
| Much Easier Position.
| what with air scouts to watch all
the movements of the enemy and
wireless to transmit their reports in
stantly to. headquarters, portable
wireless stations to keep headquarters
| IN close touch with everything that
occurs along the battle front, sub
noartnas to harrass the chipping and
| blow 11p the dreadnaughts OF the roe,
motor-driven artillery to move
| n11fcl1ly from place to place and many
innroyements In the essential arts
of sanitation and feeding. the posi-
tion e3f the modern nation at war Is
much easier than it was formerly.
But 1T must be REMEMBERED tnat
| the enemy is also equipped with THESE
new side-arms of Mars and that new
weapons are being daily perfected 70
fnrther mans inhumanity to man. 10
the end that tie United States may
be fully prepared in the event OF wal AZ
fhe7War department is keeping close
watch, over all the fghting abroad.
Il he NY1RA