BALLOONS IN WARFARE.
Fxpeuimknts recently conducted by the balloon department at Aldcrshot (taja Chamber's Journal) poiut to tho possibility of n new horror being added to modern warfare, Tho idea is to drop from balloons heavy charges of high explosives into fortified works beneath them, so as to anniju'ato tho garrison and dislodge tho guns at ouo fearful operation. Tho suggestion docs not seem to be altogether new, for it has been foreshadowed in some of those lurid novels now so much in va«ue in which scientific marvels of the future aro dealt with as if thoy were realities of the present. The accounts of the experiments in question aro purposely vaguo but what we gather from, them is that it is found possible to sond up small balloons carrying explosive charges, and that those charges "cm bo released from a distant point hy a modified application of Marooni's wirel.ss tclogvaphy apparatus. It js stated that the c:<plosives oan be dropped with wonderful precision, into a spaij! of little over an acre, from great distances, We aro glad to note that at tho Hague conference this method of warfare has becu forbidden at least for live years.
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Waikato Argus, Volume VII, Issue 515, 18 November 1899, Page 1 (Supplement)
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