The Alaska daily empire., 1916-02-10
THE AERoRLANR N wAR AND N PEAcg
lcIncInnatI FnauIrerl

(Cincinnau Enqurorl
 This European war has been the stimulus to tho development of aeroplanes to Q degree chat by experts would not have been deemed possible in the short space Of IS months of time
 The zeppelins and other classes Of dirigible air ships do not seem have made nearly Inc advance that aeroplanes have although several inventors of the opinion that Q combination of the aeropaue and the balloon will finally prove the saiest and most reliable of all typos.
 The news from Great Britain and Germany leaves no doubt but that of these nation now possesses sQuadrons of swift aeropanes which carry effective rapid1rng cannon as we'll machine guns, and they each have number of battle ship aeropanes carrying heavier guns and large numbers of bombs and other explosives ne we'll as of from ten to 25 men, Each one of the large begerent has organized spec al corps of ayaors and companies of squadrons num- boring 10 to 50 machines ore in daily service along the battle fronts In the east and south well aa in the the west
 Thousands oi these machines, from the lghtest to the heaviest type are being rapidly constructed. While France Germany Austria Russia Serbia have been ire quentiy raided and their border cities have auered serious damage yet Great Britain and Italy protected by the sea- have suffered yet comparatively small damage.
 The air conflict is just beginning. The aeroplanes have demonstrated their utility in this destructive war work and before three more months of 1916 have elaps ed they win carry death and disaster to many of the principal cities in the beIHgerent countries.
 Enormous as has been the loss of life during the years 1914 and 1915 this present year will be beyond them all in the magnitude of destruction of property and in the numbers of the soldiers civilians of the country at war who win be killed and wounded
 There vilI be few nights of repose in any of the towns and cities of tho warning nations after the first of next April for the deadly machines by the thousands will be striving every hour from the falling of the night to the dawnng Of the morning to kin and destroy their opponents With the machines the raids up on Great Britain and upon Italy will make them the theatres of spectacular work of war and both countries will see within thelr boundaries similar to those which Belgium Northern France. Serbia Galicia and Poland have witnessed as to the horrors of this terrible strife.
 The latest type of the armOred battle ship aero planes Of Great Britain and Of Germany able to make more than 100 miles an hour; have rapid-ire cannon with range of five miles; carry tons of explos Ives. and car remain hours in the air without descend ing
 They are flying forts and no city or town but will be at the mercy unless defended by equally efficient living machines
 When this war closes and the capabilities of these machines are recognized by those who study progress in peaceful ways there w be revolution in the trans portation of mails freghts and persons iu many parts of the world.
 It took the automobile fully ten years to convince tho masses of the people of adaptabnity to general use but this war has convinced the world of the utility of the aeroplane In small fraction of that time