The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-11-30

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< \ x pARfS.--Will the first trans -Atlanti,
~ t mis- yearl Or Is the westhel
< ~ ~ 10 NY il during the winter
S6H X won't be more than a few
066ihs q mosf before the attempt u
Bade. and, according to all indications
Il vin b made in one ct The hus'
Gproni machines which are being uset
% much for bombing purposes
saw BY the American cables The
other day that you in America had hat
several recent tests OF the endurance
and speed and weight carrying eapa'
bnities Of the Caproni
M<rt 10 new and enlarged form ol
\ tn machine being built in Italy now
whifh has three powerful F. ]. A. I
engines aggrcgating 1900 horsepower
aud can carry for short bombing aids
a much as five tons Of explosives, For
TIE longer raids, the explosives have
td6e sacrificed for the fuel supply The
ntv machine carries four guns.
es1 CSss o7s Miles; No Stops.
Aeceutly Gabrielle d'Annunrio accom-
piished nonstop trip OF US piles
Ghis was on q machine carrying sew
epi thmsand pounds Of explosives and
three meha besides d'Annuzio.
A few days before that Captain Lau-
reati made his remarkable flight from
Turin to London, $50 miles in seven
hours md twenty-five minutes, and he
counts that he lost at least one hour in
storm, " the Alps, On q previous oc-
cdsion Captain Lsurcati made non.
stop trip from Turin to Naples and
hsck. q distance Of go miles, in ten
hours and thirU-three minutes. In each
ctse he was in what is known as the
RSby Caproni. a much smaller machine
than the usual bombing type, with only
a 250-horseDower motor.
r n Used for Postal Service.
For some time now the Italians have
been using aeroplancs for their postal
service q Sicliy and The Caproni broth
ers ars sifcng advocates Of a postal
servict = England The quickest time
made bS3ifsin and boat over the same
ground vlot took Lauread seven hours,
b shfnk over twcnty-four hours.
ycAa Caproni, the younger Of the two
bro(herS, IND the one who has invented
mo- n ske aeroplane, h IN Paris now,
sa( - = extremely hopeful OF trans
AtAnt36 4lights, He says that he and
hiS benter iervently believe that the
tiu6< iefeoming when lines OF aero
plIkes xlu connect town and city and
coSatryv and continent with aerial
trAins cspabie Of transporting upward
Of 100 passenters and travelling from
da$ 10 100 rsiies an hour.
they say that the Capronl trlpianes
of today can easily carry thirty pas
sengers between Milan and Turin, and
with the daily almost hourly improve
rneuts which the war has brought about
there Il no reason that machines carry
ing ilfiy or sixty passengers should mo-
cross the Atlantic
Three Things Essential.
There are three things essential In
aerial warfare, rs / see it, Signor
Caproni said IN an interview the other
day. the destruction OF the enemy's
productive centers, the destruction Of
his naval bases and the bombardment
Of his rear. This is a war of material
IF we paralyzed the three or four
huge German Industrial centers, we
would create . crisis. perhaps decisive,
h the production OF arms and mum
tons. A single triplane OF 900 horse
power can transport and drop on Essen
5000 pounds Of explosives, on Pola
5000 potsnds and on Vienna, 200. II
b easy. to form the idea OF what a
squadriila Of two or three hundred OF
these machines could do.
sAs TO the naval bases, Il Il needless
b Insist upon the obstacles to allied
chipping created by the submarines, and
slso useless 10 repeat that the means SC
tsr cmploysd have not been equal tc
thet tsSk. Ycu cannot exterminate .
ewifn of wssps BY killing them one b,
O. Yca anmihilate them bv squash
inG.tb nest When you shall have de
Atroyed the submarine hases we shal
have solved the problem.
Safstv. for Soldiers.
Coming TO the third phase. X Is evi
deak tisss II We force the enemy by re-
pcaied bcmbariments 10 remove hi
aviation centers far behind the front
We shall assure our own troops safety
and quiet"
rhe United States government I.
sending many hundreds Of aviators tc
Italy TO learn on these machines ant
has ordered, understand, 5000 Of IN,
engines and 100 Of the machines them.
selves. When ] was told these figure,
! heard that the delivery wasn't to b,
made until next March. hut the other
day heard one Of the chiefs Of avia,
ton complaining bitterly because hi.
snachine hadn't come.
] asked him II they were the Caproni,
and told him the figures had heard
He smiled discreet smile and said
Il have a bad memory for figures,
which sounded TO me like coniirma
tIon But then one pets 10 readips