The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-10-13

powered FIHTiNa H1RfEANE built for tie army Of Japan
This great machine is its way to the Japanese
pie Notice the powerful construction huge wheels like
tractor wheels to bear the heavy weight in starting Don't
the two gums amounted asys the wg sss
enemy air machines while this heavy air giant proceeded to
drop tons Of highest explosives and deadly enemy
The attention Of President Coolidge is called to the fact that
while Japan builds these gigantic and EFFICIENT engines Of
war, we are amusing ourselves and DELUDG ourselves with
popgun out Of date ridiculous little placed along the
edge Of this gigantic continent
Our army mensome Of them ought to be sent for few
years to good military school in with in
tense delight that these 16nch guns distance Of
Of course they can but what s Of IT. Look a this japanese
fighting machine could fly territory and just
INT wipe Of existence then pass on to bomb and gas
New York Chicago OF the Capitol at Washington, the
brown commanding officer might choose. .
And this ism Could there be any greater Joke
than building batteps 100000 apiece when the price
Of one battlesp would build two thousand fsclass flying
Could there be anything more idiOc than relying on 16
Inch guns with little S5me firing capacity meet
from great aplanecaryng ships hundred miles out be-
yOnd the reach Of these little coast POPGUNs?
Those flying machines with their deadly charges Of the
highest explosives and poisonous gases would fly over our
Cutotdate battleship $4,000 feet up the air. fast that
the sleepy elderly admrals woudn know they were
there Released for flight hundred miles off the coast
before dawn they could lombard and lay York
or washington and fly back to the fast ships that brought
happenedexCept for the explosions poisoning And
there are submarines building big enough carry fight
ing planes that could travel under close any coast
city.
What's the use Of talking about defense gum able
TO fire oneon shell thirty miles, in this day when flying
machines released the east Of New York the
ing could be in Chicago noo do their destructive work
There then fly across Lake Michigan land in Canada and
allow themselves to be nerned"9 What difference would
make to rich nation fighting the United States if it
could destroy such city Chicago poison half it's inhab
tants with fleet of battle planes the price of having
those inexpensive planes and few dozen flying men in
termed in Canada?
Is
contrast in your mind the puny ridiculous power this
little coast defense popping away the edge Of our
continent firing futile shells thryfive miles out on the
ocean, with this huge deadly fighting ship that could drop
enough explosive to wipe out such land guns
ana then go on with its companions to destroy a city
Ihs ship now on its way to Japan Of hundreds that
Japan ordering abroad building for herself with feveris
haste built by the Germans in Denmark The Treaty Of
Versailles won't allow Germany build such machines for
herself the French have brains enough to know that who
controls the air controls the WORLD
But Germany permitted to build many these ships
9 she peases for other nations and she is hurredy building
them for Japan.
Ask yourself WHY JAPAN WANTS THESE FLYING
MACHINES She doesn't need them deal with sleepy Old
China, cursed with civil war. -
She doesn't need them for feeble Korea.
After you read this article and these pictures write to
the President Of the United States and your
saying as politely possible something Of this Sort