LURID WARNING

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 396, 3 December 1932, Page 2

LURID WARNING

AIR WARFARE TREMENDOUS PGSSIBILITlES YISUALISED FOR FUTURE. COMPETENT OPINION. London, Saturadq. Visualising the terrifying effects of future aerial raids by hombers, compared with which the war-time machines were almost experimental, Col. William Bishop declares that in the next war huge populated areas. will be laid waste like fields devoured by locusts. Officially credited with . having brought down 72 German 'planes durthe the war and with having engaged in more than 170 air battles, .Colonel Bishop was awarded, the V.C., the D.S.O., and bar, the M.C., the D.F.C., the Croix de Guerre with two palms, the special med'allion of the British Air Fleet Committee, the gold medal of the Aero Cluh of France and the special war medal of the Aero Club of America — so he should know what he is talking about. Long lines of bombers, he says, will await the moment when war is declared. Then a hundred pilots will shout "ContaCt!" Their engines will burst into a shattering roar, and within a few moments of that fatal zero hour the hundred machines will he rushing to rain tons of incendiary mombs on a panic-stricken enemy capital, obliterating the whole streets, while the gases will spread a further pall of death. The raiders, probably, w.il be brought down, but the war will have been won by bricging the civilian population to its kneos. . "I am no sensation-monger," he says, "hut I helieve that gases are now being manufactured that will he capable of wiping man from the face of the earth."