The Newark journal., 1919-05-22

towns, would have been bombed from stations be-
hind the allied front in France.
For instance, Gabrielle dAnnunzo, the Italian
poet and aviator, succeeded in reaching Vienna
with Caproni and in demonstrating to the Vien-
nese that Italy had plane capable OF dropping
bombs them. D'Annunzio did not drop b0s1bs
his famous raid; he scattered thousands of
pamphlets informing the people of Vienna that
they were supporting the wrong government i'll the
great 1t object lesson whose effect
great in breaking Austrian morale.
Vienna not quite as far from the allied lines
rs Berlin. The flight D'AnHuHzio made was seme-
thing less than one thousand miles But he Went
heavily loaded and returned successfully.
Caproni Pledges His Future
1--WE have Yanquished our common enemy" Ca
prom says, but task rs aircraft makers Is by
means finished. We must not stop perfect
system of airplanes viii be Il wonderful safeguard
to any nation a protection against new out
bursts, on the part of irresponsible powers,
against civilization and humanity.
PERSONALLY l am going TO contribute all my
strength to development of the winged giant
which proved the most powerful and telling wea-
pom of our just and sacred war.
Our plant will be maintained at full strength
We will keep the thousands of workmen Who were
busy here under full war strain when the arms
tce ended hostilites We will not go back under
any circumstances TO that pre-war status, when
the workmen in our plant numbered dozens rather
than thousands"
CaprOni came into the air game as an engineer
ing student in that period when the Langley ma
chine launched under unfavorable circum-
stances and when the Wrights making their
wonderful flights with the first real airplane. The
idea of flying fired Capronis Imagination
81 will forget" he said the other day
"the profound impression created in on read
ing newspaper accounts of the first Wright
flights. From that time until today have dedi-
Gated myself to the nav science of flying"
Caproni will call his new plane the White
Eagle The name is linked to Il strange prophecy
published in Rome, Italy, in 1916 which Is at
tributed to an English monk of the seventeenth
century The prophecy asserted that in the twen-
teth century there would be great world war.
started by the diabolica clevcrness of an emperor
of the country of Martin Luther in alliance with
another emperor. both bearing their military
uniforms and on their national escutcheons two
black eagles, 1t added that civilization would de-
feat ana throw out the barbarans whose empires
would be divided into % states.
1t is inferred that the White Eagle Is intended
to typfy the American bird
The poet W. Lewis has made the event the sub
feet OF n poem Which has been set to music. The
whole was presented with beautiful allegorieal
design to President Wilson when he in Milan.
1t was q result of his admiration of the poem and
the design artistically suggestive that Capron!
decided the name of White Eagle for his new
aud gigantic plane.
1t is asserted that the aviatorS who will make
the trip intend to follow the route Of Columbus
across the They will fly from Italy TO Cadz.
thence TO the Azores and from the Azores TO the
American coast, al.ghting in the neighborhood of
Washington.
Hundreds Of men have lost their lives IN the
dangerous business OF trying out planes and
attempting to make new records. The list is ,ous: