WAR WITH AIRSHIPS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8875, 27 July 1907, Page 1

WAR WITH AIRSHIPS.

Mr Hudson Maxim, the inventor of maximite and stabillite, foresees that immediately one belligerent employs balloons and airships for attack, the other will have them also. “To counter is the rule in war’as in boxing,’’ lie remarks. “Armed with light rapid-firers, those airships would meet and fight each other in the sky. Should some escape and succeed in getting above the enemy’s works with dynamitr, the damage they would inflict would lio only local. If a hundred airships, carrying ton tons of dynamite, were to pass our coast fortifications and drop their explosives, there would he no considerable harm done. V’e also would have a squadron to intercept them; but, supposing we did uok mortars can fire at an angle ’of 45Jeg., and the airships 'could not always be just overhead and out of range of all the coast guns and warships. At some time they could be shot at, and a shrapnel bursting near a balloon or arrsidp would bring it down. If a balloon succeeded in getting just where it could see a submarine, and drop a projectile upon it, of course the submarine, if alone, would be defenceless. But that sort of craft is never unaccompanied. Front ship or shore some gnu would at the same moment have an opportunity to fire at the object in the air. Whenever wo make a new engine of wav we make another to 'destroy it. Tims, after the torpedoTboat came tire torpedo-boat destroyer. As soon as airships are used in war there will be ai' ship destroyers to meet them in their own element. Reliance will not be placed on gnus below on laud. ’ 1

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