The Washington times., 1916-06-09
GIVES NEW WARNING
OF JAPANESE PERIL
berton-BiIling, Parliament
Member, Would Waken
America.
BY WILLIAM G. SHEPHERD.

By WILLIAM G. SHEPHERD.
LONDON, May % (by maiD. -Pember-
ton Billing. who Is trying to awaken
England in the 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
armen were being murdered. wore a
purple dressing gown and called me
'old SPORT as he sat at his breakfast
table being interviewed.
once or twice he called to his secre-
tary. standing near by. Where in
the world is my breakfast Why doesn't
some one bring me nv breakfast7"
Have you ever been in the United
States7"
Yes"
do you SUPPOSE the United States
could I've Weakened up in the matter Of
air service?"
Not until you begin to get some hard
bumps. You'll get them some day. too.
from the japanese"
Pemberton- Billing has raised such a
tumult. conversationally. in England
about the air service that his ideas OF
how great and extensive the air serv-
Ice should be made, are Of interest.
His idea is to have the air service the
greatest arm Of the British forces. He
erful than any navy.
Would Have 100000 Aeroplanes.
II contemplate a force Of 100000 aero
planes soon. an a force Of 10000 with
In the next ten years. In general there
ought to be five different kinds OF
aeroplanes. First there will be a scout
small. and very fast. Another will be
a heavier machine. arrnored. for bomb
dropping. carrying. perhaps. one bomb.
The third sort will be cheap and
large machine. made In vast quantities,
for ordinary battle purposes.
"A transport aeroplane will rank next
In the Importance. 1t will be capable Of
carving from fifteen to twenty-five
men from one part OF a battle line to
another and also of moving guns. am
munition and other supplies 1t will
probably have five or six decks" Such
a machine would rank as the army
notorious.
There are going to be huge battle
planes in the future that will carry bat
teries of perhaps four 5-inch guns or
three 6-inch guns with fire control like
battleships and with a captain and
crew.
Do All Fighting In Sky.
Get your army and your navy. too.
into the sky. Make you enemy come
In the sky: feed them In the sky; let
them live In the sky. Just as Napoleon
used 10 force his opponents to give bat
tie on fields which he himself had Sc
lected. so let the generals Of war-to-be
force their enemies to come UP into the
sky to met them"
This is the philosophy Of Pemberton-
He has a very definite idea Of the
plane that would be made for tho Use
of the ordinary "infantrymen" Of tire
sky. the machine that would make up
I'VE would stamp the. wings out Of
metal. by the thousands. The parts
would be standardized. The frames
would be OF steel tubing and the things
and scientifically. like you IN America
put together your small. popular auto
mobiles that you make by the thou
sands. The pre-war cost OF such nero
planes would have been about 1900
apiece"
How to Develop Pilots.
"But could you develop pilots to man
80 many air machincs-'
IT can guarantee to develop 5000
pilots in England with the next six
months: I would use a cycle track, an
automobile speedway. and q riding
track for horses.
First. would put my pupils on the
sense of balance. Then 1 would put
them In automobiles to have them gain
| a sense of speed.
THE cycle track and the automobile
track would give them head training.
Then. by controlling horses, their hands
would be trained and they would be
ready to take up flying very shortly"
From details. the new member O:
Parliament passed again to gencralities.
He put forth the old argument that the
mora terrible Wnr becomes owing I'm
improvements In the methods of killing.
the less likely the world would be to
see war.
Would Stop All Wars.
war can be wiped out absolutely" he
declared. theoretically. ny the develop
ment Of air service. Two nations with
10000 aeroplanes each wouldn't dare IN
fight each other. One could wipe out
the other over night. and. facing such
terrible chances. no nation would wish
70 beBin war. I prophesy that with
In the hext ten years. II will be pos
sible FOR nations 70 use at least 10n.00)
aeroplanes In warfare, War is develop
ing in that direction"
Have you an idea as to the POSSIBLE
ny OF awakening the United States to
the Importance Of air preparedness7
II think you're like the .Enrlish. old
srort. You know what the Irtshman
an Bnglishman once and the English
man won't answer. You sI,eak ~ him
a second time, and he doesn't answer.
Then you hit him on the. side OF the
and says: 4 beg your pardon. You
spoke to me. didn't your u
Il was at this point that Pemberton-
Filling said that. sooner or later. the
United States would have to look out
They're able people." he said