The Dermott news., 1919-04-17
SECRET PLANS ID
 FO|L ENEMY READY
MANY DEVICES AND COMPOUNDS HAD BEEN PERFECTED BY
 AMERICA AND ALLIES.
THEY WILL NOT BE REVEALED
Tremendous Possibilities in Warfare of the Airplane Under Automatic Control Without Pilot. Successfully Tested at Fort Worth, Tex.
By EDWARD B. CLARK.

By EDWARD B. CLARK.
 Dispatches which have been received by the war department in Washington from Fort Worth, Tex" telling of the exploits uf an airplaue under automatic control and with ho man aboard. have aroused deep ta- terest, hot enly because new War invention thus k perfected. hut be cause it calls attention to lhe many plans either perfected CT in process of perfection which this country and ltS allics had with which 10 bring the war to m ena in ease il could Hat Inc tui~bed by ordinary means af olfenSe.
 Most of the war secrets of the geY- ertHent have been kept inyteIate. The f#ft That certain machines or certain compounds had been invented or dtS- covered which would aid in the rapid prosecution of the war to the end of victory haS been disclosed ta the puh- lie but The mechanism of thc tnNen- ffenS and the nature of the compounds never have been and probably mrSer will he disclosed. the presumption ee- Ing that the Unlted States and the allies Will keep thc secrets locked in fhrtr streaG haNes until thc day comes when t may be necessary to press tbrm Iuto fine service.
 Aa Mrplaae under automatic can trol and V8th neither pilot nor eh- server on board carries with il great load of possibilities. If machines of his kind had been in possession of either uf the armies la the heid ia Europe. fortiH1afious coutd have been destroyed aaa elgioS and villages laid waste without sabieettue auE man ef the allies to the# danger of drath.
 Has Great Possibilities.
 According fa the reporss from Texas. thr aIplauc under automatic control made tlsp af ieo miles and landed where the mtn who dispatched il wanted L ta land f this machine had carried 4 cargo ef htgh explosives timed to explode when the landing was aeeuHH.Hs. #or So arranged that porous >lau sn~Hng from sight jar would touch o0 Che explosives. che can mag inc what fhe damage would be.
 If fhc Huns hal had machine of thl~ kind they could have laid Paris waste. and their BG Bertha. the bong distance cannon with tho projectiic from which they murdered ninety wor- shlpefs In the church If St- GerSatse on Good Friday, lalS, would have been east into the shade aS weapon of destruction and assassination.
 Many stories have been told about n new .aS which the Americans were ready to use at ,he French front when fht armi~t5re# went into effect. Ltkc ii seea Hauv stories of terrible en- gincs of destruction, the tale uf the new zas WIS considerably eNasser= atcd but enough ls known definitely to mak, f assured that thr chemical coauuund which was to hc used was much more powerful than anything that had Heon used ia the heid.
 II k u5t tfac That the sas would hase b.}}ed everything vtfh.u a great radius or tbat it would have destroyed atl tha vegetation for miles around. uor ara suue of the ottIrr fantastic stories about II frHr hut fnat is Was n powerful -a~ aad enc#0lfh cffrcts uhaIthe=vuemy would Gul II harl to meet sh,re ,an be uo 5ughf. T. rroh- ahfy Nas an intensified form of what iS calEad mustard Eas.