The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-12-23
AERIAL VOYAGE SOON
wAsHi>6T0N-PARIs AIR LINZ An
EASY POSSIBILITY.


Flying, II l. quite possible % deliver
General fershlng's reports 20 Presiden,
( Wilson sEa President Wilson's oad~rs
10 Gen~Iai ,1ersnIrg hs air in oorr,.
eight hour for each trip-th.r.bv 40,
Only sowing the dirhculf problems
enrs;ed by the C-boat menace. but also
cutting down the time required 10 trans
mn corlr,un.cations from Washington
70 the seat Of ssr 20 a fraction Of
the time required at present. zcconc.
ING 10 Giovanni Caprori. creator OF the
CApron! air cruisers and bat;lepian@S
The Washington-Pzris air line can b@
OPERATED IN few r,onihs-surely by
next summer
IL can ~ done b. employing six Of
rhe largest Cxpronl machines carving
tn r7sl IN r-svs
The route will have i've legs - FOL.
iOss-
From Paris 10 Portugal
Portugal 10 The Azores.
s-Azo-cs 10 Newfoundland.
f-NeUforndland 70 New YORK.
New York 10 Washington.
\ separate machine and crew Will i,e
used for each leg and there An be one
machine and cres in reserve.
The longest distance over water in
lthis route j. the leg from the hror-s
20 81 johns ~. F. which Is about
lS5 miles. therefore well within the
flying range Of our largest CaprOni
The time Of the trip may b. cut
down furihe- b. hying straight from
the Azores 10 Paris. which is a dis
isnce Of about l.i50 miles. without stop
ping in Portugal
IL IL hardly necessary 70 point cut
that the mill viii be much safer carried
By airpianes than carried by ships.
The same U-boats that terrorize |
ships will be afraid OF the mail-carrying |
airplsnes. therefore the mail line vii. |
al the same time tse an aerial E-bOat /
patrol The airplane can be summoned |
by the ships wireless 10 protect ships 1
in distress Carrying a few fifty-pound 4
depth bombs viii not add appreciably &c |
the cargo OF the mailcauying air i
planes
There j. nothing new in stating that
the war j.. above all war of mate
nal. The principle among the allies l.;
We must produce more than the enemy.
II i time that this principle was com
plsted by its cOrollary- II is neces-
sary also tha the enemy's production
diminish. l. this possibieg Yes and il
depends upon us. the allies
War materials are produced in thou
Sa nds Of workshops but they are al
most al tributaries Of three or four
immense industrial centerE- II we para
lyzed these centers-Which in Germany
are 20 ~ found on the banks Of the
Rhine in Wesiph.lia. al Munich. etc. I
and in Austria. in the outskirts Of
Vienna and Budapest-We would create
4 crisis. perhaps a decisive crisis. in
he production Of arms and munitioEs
This Is possible. thanks 10 the great :
progress Of aviation
A single large friplaue OF sos MORSE !
DOWer can transport and drop 500 ,
kilograms Of explosives OF Essen. -.isl Z
kilograms on Pois ard 1850 Kilograms
IT Vienna. II j. easy to form an iies t.
4 the capabilities Of = fleet VI 2e0 or =
90 triplanes by simple multiplication.
Aerial warfare as ! see IL has three
Ihases- The first Is the one ] have
ust referred 70. the Others are the de-
truciion Of the eneTny's naval bases
nd the bOmbardment OF his rear =
II i not necessary 20 dwell upon the n
bstacle 10 allied shipping created bY c
he enemy submarines. II IL also use n
- 20 repeat that the means % far \
mployed 20 combat the submarines \
ave nog proved equal 10 their task ii
ou cannot eKtiTpate q swarm OF wsEys d
y going after tne wasDE one by one. z
o. extirDste them by destroying the
ext similarly We znal never triumph O,
yer the eneuys submarine feet bv s
1aging isolated submarines AZ sea- but &
. shall attain our object by destroy a
z Their ba ases "
Coming 10 the third phase u the war d.