AIRPLANE TERRIBLE AS WAR-TIME WEAPON
DEATH TO MILLIONS FOKKER LOOKS AHEAD By Cable.—Press Association. — Copyright. NEW YORK. Wednesday. The well-known airplane constructor, J,r - Anthony Fokker, addressing •he Netherlands Chamber of Commerce, said aviation afforded the cheapest and most efficient method silling people. Bombing planes, loaded with gas bombs, could, in a city like New York, destroy millions of persons absolutely without fail. So important wou 1 aviation as an offensive weapon be in another war, and so great the range °* Planes, that the safest place for a man would be the front line trenches. The man who stayed away from the front to manufacture shells and guns °n a war contract would be In more danger than the man at the front. The speaker meant to infer that aviation ® s a factor for peace by its very deuliin ess as a potential weapon of Offencj.—A. and N.Z.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 181, 21 October 1927, Page 9
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