The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1918-02-16
"Rp,.auSp the Germans k.lled


we should 90 to Germany with the de-
liberate intention Of Staying their WON |
en ana children.
But if fute had orduincd that H"r- |
lin should b" situated where BruE"~ |
now is, and it. III that ncWIy-pIar"d I
Berlin. were 10 be found factories con /
>tructing bombs. small arms, and air |
planes, barracks with men under arms, /
docks, offices from which war-lik" "p |
eratjons were controlled, should We for
fear Of killing women and children CIV"
up our right under every tenet Of in
trrnationuI law To bring victory little
nearer through the destruction Of these
places? OF course not.
The German war on the western
front is being waged south and west
of the Rhine. Everything that comes
from the heart Of Germany to main
tain that warfare must come across the
Rhine on bridges. What, | ask you,
would be the disOCation in OrganiZa-
ton and strategic preparation If, by
the employment Of untold flights OF
bombing airplaneS adequately protect
ed by single-seater fighters OF the lat
est type, we could shatter every means
Of communication across the KIM" -
With America in the field, can On
yiSage y. 800 airplaneS ready for use
at q given moment. This would mean
an output by no means beyond the ca
pacity of British and American re
sources.
Then. with the collective offensive
power thus gathered together. it would
he strange if we could not. in one fell
~woop, strike one mighty blow towards
the final victory, and maybe shatter 1T
the same time. irrevOcably and definite,
! ly, the already wavering hopes of our
| bastard enemy. We could do this even
| though the Germans. as could scarcely
! be avoided, knew full we'll of the prep
aratiOnS We were making.
Lack Of AirpIanes Brings Attacks.
c. G. Gray, editor of the Aero
plane" law expert whose technical
| knowledge is greater than that of the
parliamentary dignitarieS I have quot
ed. agreed emphatically with what they
had said. Our army is in France,
he declared, because it Is better to
attack the enemy there than it is to
| stop at home and let him attack US
| here.
"If we had had as big an army in
1914 as We have now, we should now
be invading Germany instead of fight
ing in France. or more probably the
war would have been over year or
two ago. II We had as big an air fleet
now as we shall have in q year. or per
hapS even in six months, we should be
dropping bombs by the ton in Germany,
and the end of the war would be near
at hand.
I'm 1913 the Navy league plastered
London with a demand for S5,UOO,0W
for airplaneS. and We who worked that
agitation were ridiculed for the huge
ness Of our demands. To-day l could
name a dozen aircraft firms each OF
which has orders in hand for more
than the million pounds which foul
wears ago was regarded as impossible
for our whole aeronautical grant.
Demand Grand Air Fleets.
"Our present demands, doubtless re
garded as absurd by hidebound Off
{ cfals. are that we shall have an air fee
+ over land which will go over the Ger
man army and will carry war into tn
, enemy'S country. And we demand Al
air fleet over the sea that will make /
: impossible for a German submarine t
: show its periscope within a hundre'
miles Of our coastS-mOSt tOrpedOin
is done within the 100-mile limit. re
member. Such fleets are regarded a
: impracticable today.
r Nevertheless, there are plenty o
). untapped sources of supply for NOR
o and more airplaneS in this country,
= the making of minor parts is farme
K out to small firms. and if the systeI
4 of production is reorganiZed and 81
: tolerated Also there is huge outpU
:; 10 be had from America. if our ne
n ally will consent TO accept ready-mad
k designs from Europe. and will not il
Sist on waiting to do her own exper
: lnenting.
v Given that huge air fleet which W
r require. the rest is fuirly plain sailin
J. BY Systematically bombing all the aer
r dromeS in Flanders from which Germn
G. airplaneS start for England, we ca
l. force back their starting places fart
ii err and farther till they are SO far en-
IS that they cannot reach the EnStls
coast. After that we can devote OF
,e air fleet seriously to stopping the wa
in Would Shake Morale Of People.
IS AT present we send few bombi!
IS machines across the German lines al
r blow up an ammunition dump, viii
# deprives a short portion Of the enemy
70 fighting line Of some of its ammuI
in ton, and at the same time provid
w more work and wages for muniti'
in workers in Germany. II. OF this,
r. could afford to send number Of mu
C. bigger bombing machines into Ga
CHI many, and could drop many tons
do bombs on the munition works. '
an should stop work and wages. we shou
cause distress and discomfort nmo
the munition workers. aud We shot
a shake the morale and the resources
be German people tn the very core.
MS with our modern long distau
Id bombing airplnncs. Essen. krcf"
,se Mannheim, Frankfort. and d"srn@
rs other big munition rCutcra nro ="
rs. within our reach, The great ih"Nhn
u, G,.,t IA M