The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-02-14

the fingers of the man who would be clean.
 Upon a greater scale, we had mines at every cross road, in every thicket, beneath every relic of house which remained; not mines, be it observed that necessarily exploded within a few days of the invaders retreat, but cunning contrivanceS which would ex- plode a week, a fortnight, or even a month after the victorious troops had taken possession of the shelter So clever, indeed, is all this that infantry must go with booby-trap expert to lead them. Not thing must be touch | ed, not a yard of the ground unex- plored, for the imprint of the Hun 1 is everywhere, and his writing upon the wall spells death.
 Such being the case, why should his threats of further frightfulness ap- pail us? That they do not do so is a tribute to our national common sense, but it is no compliment to his profes- sors. Bearded and beery. full of saul sage, and wise in peace time, now that war rages they have become so many caged apes, whose eyes start from their heads in fury. Woe to the world that would oppose us, they cry. We
 see them locked up in their laborator- ies amid the fumes of acids and the stink of vapors. We look upon tEe pictures they have drawn and see the whole universe going up in the flames of the fire they have kindled. Des- troy, and again destroy. Let there be no enemy of Germany alive when this war is finished. Let the acids blind them; new gases asphyxiate, a torrent of fire be poured out upon them. And these professors believe that they can
 do it. Their schemes have been trum- peted in many German newspaper.
 Killing by Wireless
 These are curious and worthy of
 our notice. The latest that I have seen records the belief of German
 professor that he has discovered a
 means of killing British troops by
 wireless, which would end the war in
 a week. So terrible is the weapon
 that he will only use it if Germany be beaten ''to a frazzle." In that case his giant dynamos will release a cur
 rent which will mow down whole reg
 iments like chaff, and in the twink ling destroy an army. Quite how it is
 to be done nobody seems aware, and the threat apparently has left Sir
 Douglas Haig cold. But there it is
 and there is the professor glaring up-
 on an alien world, and dooming it tc Isudden extinction. He is not alone of course, and some of his fellows are just as infuriated. One still thinks that an application of wireless may fire al
 the magazines of our warships, anc Ithat one day we shall see the whole fleet go skyward upon the touching o1
 a button at Berlin. We know tha the Germans have been experiment
 ing with a torpedo directed from the shore by wireless, and that our pa
 trols have had the pleasure of sink
 ing several of these monstrosities; bu that electricity can fire the magazine
 is one of those delusions which onl,
 a bearded maniac of Heidelberg coulC entertain.
 Far more practical, and clearl, more in accord with probability, ii
 the belief that the whole German fleet will come out headlong directl, defeat looms upon it's horizon, anC , will be sacrificed to the last ship il | , injury upon our navy. Such a grea battle seems to me inevitable, for i s the enemy fleet is to be sacrifices l anyway should peace come, what ob : ject can there be to keep it in it's har 5 bors? Better that it should perish t : the last ship in that mad, onslaught & when with zeppelins, seaplanes an, a very shoals of mines, it will endeavo to put two hundred thousand men up on British shores to ravish and des , troy in a last mad orgy.
 g Invasion of Britain
 l There are generals of great fam in our country today who certainl l believe that this grand attack will b 1 the eliminating act of Armageddor e The certain destruction of the tW t hundred thousand men will not mat S ter to the Germans. They have al = ways believed falsely, as I think = that if two hundred thousand me f could be landed on these shores the e could accomplish a work of devasta n tion which would cripple us for yeart d All the villages near the sea coas a and some of the more considerabI : towns would be destroyed.
 PosSlbly they tnlnk' panic Woul " overtake Great Britain. We shoul . find ourselves with hostile army du in somewhere on the East Coast, an 6 should be glad to be quit of it at an A price. Our national view, that of ou e splendid navy, is in total opposition A to this. We believe that these rap Y ing heroes would never arrive at al d So great is our confidence in the nav e that we are sure that the Hun Argos would perish in the depths of tn II North Sea, and the whole endeavo u end in a debacle without precedent n Decisive Air Rattlc
 y If this be so, am afraid that great : CT consideration must be given to tn e last great battle of the air, and tha h for our victory there we must rel