The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1916-06-08
GIVES WARNING TO
U.S.. AGAINST JAPANESE
Despairs Of America Taking Strong to
Preparedness Till She Gets Few
Hard JOlis; Predicts Clash
With Mikado

(Ry William G. Shepherd United
Press staff Correspondent
London, May 25. (By mall Penn
berton Billing. who Is trying to awaken
England in tic matter Of the mastery
Of the air and who made the charge
in the British parliament to which he
has been recently elected that British
airmen were being murdered, wore
purple dressing gown and called mo
"old sport as he sat at his breakfast
table being interviewed
Once or twice he called To his secre.
tary. standing nearby where in the
world is my breakfast2 Why doesn't
someone bring me my breakfasts"
Have you ever been III the United
states?'
Eyes
s~po you suppose the United States
ecsld be awakened in tho matter of
air seryice2'
mot until YOU begin % get some
4 hard bumps You'll get them some
day too from the Japanese.
Pemberton- Billing has raised such a
tumult, conyersationally, in England
about the air service that his ideas
of how great and extensive the air SER
vice should be made are Of interest.
His idea Is 10 have the air service
the greatest arm Of the British forces.
lie believes that It can be made more
powerful than The navy.
4 contemplate force Of 100000
aeroplanes soon, and force Of 250.
900 within the next ten years n gen
eral there ought IL be five differant
kinds Of aeroplanes. First there viii
be scout, small, and very fast AnS
other will be d heavier macnine, ar
mored for bomb dropping. carrying.
perhaps, one bomb.
"The third sort will be . cheap and
large machine, made IA vast quanti-
ties, for ordinary battle .pulposes.
"a transport aeropIane van rank
next in Importance II Will be capable
of carrying from l5 to rs men from
one part of battle line 70 another
ana also Of moving guns, ammunition
and other supplies it will probably
have five or six decks Such ma
chine would rank as the army motor
bus.
There are going to be huge battle
planes in the future that will carry
batteries Of perhaps four five-k8ch guns
or three six.inch gums with fire cons
troll like battleships and with cap
tain and crew
Get your army and your navy, too.
into the sky. Make your enemy come
into the sky to fight Move your
troops in the sky feed them in the
sky; let them live in tho sky just as
Napoleon used to force his opponents
to give battle on fields which he him
self had selected SO let the generals
Of the war-to.he force their enemies
TO come up into the sky to meet them
This is the philosophy Of pemper-
ton Billings campaign
lie has very definite idea OF the
plano that would be made for the use
of The ordinary rinfantrymen9 Of the
sky. the machine that would make up
the bulk Of the Sky flotilla
We would stamp the wings out q
n,otal. by The thousands The parts.
would be standardized The frames
would be Of steel tubing and rap
thing. Gould be put together quickly.
etrongly and scientifically like YOU ia
America put together ypur small, pop
'ular automobiles that YOU make bY the
thousands The pre.war cost Of such
aeroplanes would have been about a
thousand dollars apiece
From details. The new member Of
parliament passed sgain 20 eenerali.
ties. Ho put forth the old srgumens
that the more terrible war becomes.
owing to improvements in the meth.
ods OF killing. the less likely the world