The Columbia evening Missourian., 1922-06-14
RIVAL ARMIES
NOT TO MEET
In NEXT WAR
Troops to Be Transported by
Air Under Smoke-Screen
Cover to Man Giant
War Tanks.
TRENCHES ARE OBSOLETE
Science to Play an Important
Parl-Civilians to Suffer
as Much as the
Soldiers.

By IHited Press.
LoNpoN. June l4-When the next
great war breaks, rival armies will moi
march to enemy borders, as Germany
did in 1914.
Instead they will be cntrained in giant
air lorries-Fifth Avenue busses OF the
sIics-and whizzcd at brcakneck speed
TO the front.
There they will be landed under the
cover Of smoke screens to man the giant
tanks ,already almost an accomplished
faciD which will crawl along the beds
Of rivers TO come to the surface op-
posiie enemy towns, there to hurl their
poison gas shells, their fire bombs. their
high explosives and their disease-sprcad.
ing projectiles on the sleeping people. /.
Trenches. will hardly perform such a
leading part in the next war as they
did in the last for the simple reason
that events will move more swiftly.
OF what use would trenches be, ex-
perts say, when explosives used will be
so powerful that battalion dug in will
go rocke;ing heavenwards by the mere
pressure Of button or the hurried
whisper into field telephone.
And what Of the men called cannon
fodder in the late war?
Again the experts claim that the old
order mus, change.
UNIFORMS WILL BE EXTINCT
The fighters of the next war, they
say, who are to take the place Of our
modern infantry, will be strange looking
creatures. Uniforms as we know them
will be extinct In their place men will
appear as giant crustaceans-huge crab
like beings, covered from head to foot
with bullet-proof steel, grotesquely mask
ed 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, at the same time pumping oxy-
gen into their steel cases so that they
may walk and breathe with case despite
the weight and encumbrance of their
protective metal.
II the infantry are to be covered with
steel armor, what Of the men who are
TO man the super-tanks mentioned in
the last chapter?
Tank experts already forecast that
they will be clothed in a kind Of diving
dress, in case the tank should be blown
up when on its river journeys by the
anti-tank destroyers-heavily armored
submarines capable of travelling either on
land or under water at hundred mile an
hour speed, carrying tank death in their
electric projectors which will put whole
tank crews out of action by shocks.
WAR WILL LAST FEW WEEKS
Many experts claim that the next war
will last but week or two at the most
There will be one or two enormous
explosions, they say, and then the war
will be over.
Guns and gases-the guns firing pro-
jectiles which on bursting will discharge
death-dealing fumes over huge areas,
gases released from enormous spheres
which will be loosed by the opposing
armies-these will be the principal fac
tors in the land war.
The air is of course a different field.
Armies will have little or no chance when
the great bombs come whistling down
from the skies. For that reason special
air intelligence planes-heavily armored
and fitted with the latest radio devices
will be attached to the land armies in
order TO warn them when enemy planes
are winging on their way above them.
As soon as the warning is received, the
land armies will make for their tanks
and their portable steel tunnels.
When they are caught by surprise