The Archive · 1910

Possibility of Error

There would sure to be seroplanists anxious to drop explosives—probably by the approved means of keg of explosive at the end of a strig tied to risk from them fairly exactly from the experiences of sham warfare.

Bat the lesson has gone by absolutely unheeded. The same old game has been repeated. It was tolerably obvious to anyone with expert knowledge that the dangerous bomb-dropping business wae more or less moonsbioe, But the equally obvious fact that a single the aeroplane. Supposing the sero- di ible able to do anything at all as a planist not to be shot in this effort, as scant would annibilste all secrecy of he probably would be (for after all an navel of military movements, never aeroplane offers nearly as much target seems to have entered the hi of a to volley firing as a haystack), it is single person in authority till about a conceivable that he might produce as year or 40 Now we are building much effect as a single high ex-one big m dirigible and there are plosive sbell discharged from an couple of dirigibles in- band in ordinary naval gan, The gan method France which (for a longer time than therefore seems the simpler at the pre-most people can remember) have been sent day; and adhesion to it would "coming over next month" for our remove the very present risk that the well-meaning aviator might attack o PRIVATE ENTERPRISE, of our own ships Since it authenticated that in the Russo-Japanese Japanese destroyers once mistook their own flagship for the enemy and tacked her, this "possibility of error"" comes along item can by no means be overlooked or procedure will probably be minimized. followed, and that we shall have to What applies to British aeroplanes, applies equally to foreign ones. At the present moment in Germany there a1 A dirigible, large not more than about half a doz war value, is and always will be the aeroplanes which would be really a kind of thing that only " millionaire able for war purposes. As the ili can indulge in privately. An aeroplane, to) fleet would be blockading the German on the other band, can already be run coast, the opportunity to try to do things by anybody able to spend inside two with bombs and trailing kegs of explo-thousand & year on it—and for two sives would be greater—bat 80 also would thousand, two handred will presently be the chances of damaging the wrong. be the working figure, side in error So—speaking, of course, Though some think otherwise, the strictly for the present day—the uses average British motorist is " parson who f the aeroplane to Germany would be ts himself in other ways in order to more " than to us. ran his car, He rans it because he loves This explains why the German Go-it, rather than because he can afford it, vernment has taken so great an i and wants "to let others see that he and epent so much money in dirigible h is the main incentive in balloons, while taking next to no in-other countries. The bulk of future terest in aeroplanes. The dirigibles have an immediate and tremendous use, Britia ill be after this pattern it motoring is any criterion, reas the war ability of the aeroplane In other words, we possess a larger Ties in the fature and not in the present. potential private reserve than apy possible enemy. And so there is a silver IN TRE FoToRE, lining to the cloud of what aviation may The fature, of course, is another bring for the British Empire. matter, All that can really be said about it is that whatever use may exist in the fature for the aeroplanes of the Copyright in United States of fatare, there is every indication that we America, may hope not to be behind other nations in this respect in the same way that we are behind with dirigibles. Oar backwardness here, our fatuous inability till the eleventh hour to see the "The Health and Vigour of an individual depend upon the quantity and ities of the dirigible as m scout, gnality of the blood. When the tissues is little short of criminal negligence, have been at work, there are thrown into It is the old story of submarines over the blood waste products, and if these For years our authorities ignored be not eliminated but (through any ines and spent much energy in cause) detained in the blood, they and proving that they were fluence nutrition and function and final-"no use." Luckily we did not go to war ly produce organic diose. "—" The in those days. If we had, we should bs Humanitarian," In cases of Scrofula, been terribly hampered by the unknown Scurvy, Eczema, Bad Legs, Skin and possibilities of what they might achieve.

Blood Diseases, Pimples, and Sores of Their physical effect would no doubt all kinds, the effects of Clark's Blood have been very little, but their moral Mixture are marvellous. Thousands of effect would have been tremendous. wonderful cures have been effected by Lock was with us, and the continait. Clarke's Blood Mixture is sold everyance of peace enabled us to repair our where at 2s, 94. per bottle. Beware of error in submarines. Every British worthless imitations and substitates.—Admiral is in a position to estimate his Ara.

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