Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-05-28
HORRORS OF NEXT WAR
DEPICTED BY EXPERT
British Officials Believe Air Bombardments and Air Gas
Tanks Will Open Campaign on Either Side
With Heavy Casualties

hurried whisper into a field telephone?
And what of the men called cannon
fodder In the late war?
Again the experts claim that the old
order must change.
The lighters OF the next war. they
say. who are to take the place OF our
modern infantry, will be strange look
Ing creatures. Uniforms as we know
them VIII be extinct. In their place
men VIII appear an giant crustaceans
huge crhblikc beings. covered from
head TO foot with bullet proof steel
grotesquely masked against fumes
some experts think that they will
move electrically. that they will be
provided with little motors which Will
propel them along in their armor.
al the came time pumping oxygen
into their steel cases 40 that they
may walk and breathe with ease. de-
spite the weight and remembrance
OF their protective metal.
IT the infantry are to be covered
with steel armor. what OF The men
who are IL man the super-tanks men
toned in the last chapter?
Denth In Tanks.
Tank experts already forecast that
they viii be clothed In kind of.div-
ing dress. In case the tank should
be blown MP when on its river Jour
heavily sTm0F-,i Submarines capable
Of travelling either on land or under
the water ut hundred mile an hour
speed. carrying tank death in their
electric projectors. which Will nut
whole tank crews out OF action by
shocks.
Many experts claim that the mex,
war viii last but week or Two at
the most.
wnr of Explosives.
There Will be one or two enormous
explosions. they sag. and then the
war Will he over.
Guns and gases-the guns firing
proJectiles which on bursting Will dis
charge death dealing fumes over huge
areas. gases released from enormous
spheres which VIII be loosed by the
opposing armies-these viii be the
principal factors in the land war.
The air IL. OF course. different
field. Armies VIII have little or no
chance when the great bombs come
"histl'ng down from the skies For
that reason special air intelligence
planes--heavily armorcd and fitted
with the latest radio devices-wil be
attached TO the land armies in order
TO warn them when enemy planes are
"inEinS on their way above them As
soon az the warning is received the
ana their portable steel tunnels.
When they are caught by surprise
mere VIII he no hope. Down VIII
come the bombs. Thousands viii per
ish. blown TO pieces by the high ex-
plosives. or left dying only to be
finished OF by the last touch" ma
chimes, which viii. knowing ones saw.
helnIe the blasted areas with poison
tases. Later at night the quick
smotherinS the area with quick lime
destroying even the dead where
their fragments lie
Electric H-nt Binsts.
Giant guns with hundred.
ranges will fire electric heat blasts.
setting fire to the cornfield and towns
IN the enemies country.
on tn" sea experts tell us that we
are TO expect battles much as they
were in the last war-onIy intensified
IN horror hundred times by the ter
rihc hitting and piercing power OF
the new naval proJcctiics. The air
mere, too. VIII play large part. In
iced. II is highly probable that r Zee,
action VIII be fought in the air above
inc "atrinE fleets the victors ewoop-
ing down on the enemy ba;tleships
and monster submarines. sinking them
with their huge bombs.
But the long-suuering civilian will
have the most unenyiabie tine. I'm
able 20 fight, Cha;Ced TO his Job. in
ONCE or on the soil. he mus, wal,
patiently for one OF .he thousand
deaths which the war gods will deal
out.
With his food supplies reduced to
minimum. the very animals OF the
hclds aHsuoyed by poison and she'll
ana fire, mis- lot will be a terrible one,
Ihen the plague makers will come
on me scene. These highly trained
scientists viii take a flight UPWARDS
over the enemies already depleted
country and let fan numerous little
grass boxes which. germ laden. will
cause whole States To die ~ pl.cna