The Mena weekly star., 1920-03-04
WAR DEVICES OF
 FUTURE FORETOLO
Frenchman Says Wireless Telegraph and Airship Will Add to Horrors Explosions and Conflagra-
 tions at Distance.
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(By International News SerNice1
 Paris, Feb 27-Awful as was the destruction of life and property in the war which came to an end in Novem- Der, 1918, it will be surpassed ten- fold by the wholesale butchery of the next armed conflict between the na- tions. Men who have devoted their lives to the study of methods of kill ing armies state that, owing to the immense advance in science, such as chemistry and electricity, they regard the possibility of another general war with unspeakable horror.
 Chief among the tragic conse- quences of the advance of science will be a formidable intensification of aerial bombardments, new and more deadly asphyxiating gases, fresh meth ods of long range slaughter, newer and more powerful explosives Sub marines, guided by wireless teleg- raphy. will have no need of crews to risk death and their torpedoes will be set off by the same means.
 M. Painleve, who was French Min ister of War in the Millerand Cabinet of 1917, believes the most potent weapon in the next conflict will be torpedo shells which will be able to travel immense distances before ex- ploding.
 According to NJ Branly. Frances chief wireless expert, nobody will be safe, even far behind the actual fight ing front. Wireless methods of de struction will have reached such an extraordinary development, he de- clares, in the course of the next ten or twenty years that people will have seriously to consider the building of subterranean cities because on the surface of the earth there will be no security for life M Branly regards the combination of wireless teleg raphy and aviation as one which wifi decide the prime characteristics of the next war.
 The progress in aviation is fraught with the direst possibilities since it I is now easy to transport enormous quantities of explosives at unheard of speed, said NJ. Branly The only way to prevent the wholesale slaugh ter of non-combatants in the next war will be the construction of sub terranean shelters under all our cities capable of accommodating the entire population We have seen airplanes large and powerful enough to carry twenty, thirty even forty persons, and forsee in the near future airplanes capable of carrying one hundred pas sengers. They will have a speed of more than 18o miles an hour Settin, out from Berlin they would be over Paris il a couple of hours, drorpng immense quantities Of explosives. "A lot has been written about the possibilities of causing explosions and eonflagrations at a distance by means of wireless telegraphy There has been much foolish talk regarding it. In order to accomplish anything of that nature an apparatus on the spot where the action is to occur is indis. pensable. Suppose. for instance, the Germans wanted to set Paris ablaze. They would have to have in Paris. already arranged, d series of aypa ratus which might De called 'recelv- CTS. Without them nothing of the kind is possible
 At sea, however, the same objec tion does not hold. It will be quite within the range of possibility, for ex- ample, 10 hurl into the midst of an enemy fleet an engine of destruction which can be exploded by wireless telegraphy. In the same way it is pos sible to conceive submarine. without crew, steered by wireless to strate gic position for the discharge of torpe- does, which would also be done by wireless"