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1907 April 6 Saturday at Boedeckk  (93) 
Transcript Boston
2 Feb 1907

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Force Will Comprise Aeroplanes, Balloons and Kites

   London, Feb 2-- the Express publishes the following: "If a foreign Power were to launch an aerial fleet against Great Britain tomorrow, Great Britain would be able to meet it in mid-air." This statement was made to a press representative by an officer who is employed by the Government in connection with experiements which are being made by the balloon section of hte army at North Camp, Aldershot. He and other officers ridiculed Professor martin's "prophecy" that Great Britain could be ruined by the German emperor's aerial fleet. 
   For many months past the Government has been making experiments and arrangements are already in progress for the formation of a home and attacking fleet of airships. Nearly 500 men are being trained for service in Britain's future aerial fleet. This aerial force will consist of balloons, kites, and aeroplanes. One of the new balloons will be launched in the course of the next few months. Its color will be kkahki, instead of red. 
   "An aerial section to our army is not the mere hobby of ambitious inventors, but it is an absolute necessity if we are to continue to hold the same position in the world which we do now, and the Express, in drawing the attention of the British public to the importance of this truth, is doing a really national service," said Colonel J. E. Capper, the commander of the balloon section at Aldershot. 
   "It is necessary to awaken public interest in the question of aerial navigation," Colonel Capper continued. "All great revolutions in the past in naval and military warfare have been due principally to private enterprise. If once the British people really wake up and take an intelligent and businesslike interest in flying machines, we shall make great strides towards solving the aerial problem and towards the construction of an aerial branch to our fighting forces. the first aeroplanes will be on the glider principle, and will be constructed on the light build and slow speed principle to avoid the difficulty of the raising problem. Birds that fly slowly have very little difficulty in leaving the ground, but swift flying birds, like the albatross , have to run for some distance along the ground flapping their wings before they sour in the air. If an albatross were placed in a forty-foot circle with a three-foot hedge round it, the bird would be able to escape; placed (?on the?) deck of a ship it is unable to fly
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able to keep a check on all plans submitted to them. Machines which have proved both theoretically and practically to be of no use will be rejected, and those which are based on a new or well-tried and right method will be studied, and if it is considered advisable the inventory will be.... 


GERMAN OFFICIAL WRITES OF GREAT AIRSHIP WARS IN NEXT DECADE: IS IN DEADLY EARNEST

State Councilor Martin believes Germany will practically rule the Word. 

BERLIN, Feb. 2.- State Councilor Rudolph Martin, who in 1904 and 1905 published two books in which he predicted the financial troubles which Russia has subsequently experienced, has now written a work intended to make the European powers believe the era of the airship as a serious factor in war is near at hand. This sort of future war literature has become pretty common in England, France and Germany, but many people still seem to be interested by them. Martin is very much in earnest and assures his critics that his book shows how Great Britain would be at the mercy of a fleet of aerial warships. 
   The book opens in 1910 with the kaiser asking the reichstag for $250,000,000 "for the immediate increase of our aerial fleet."
Martin has Japan declare war against Russia in 1912, defeating her decisively by means of 100 aerial warships acting in co-operation with huge fleets of aerial transport ships, which land large bodies of troops in the rear and on both flanks of Russia's army. Finally 700,000 Russians capitulate. 
   The disastrous termination of the war brings about a revolution in European Russia. The czar is rescued by German airships, and two provisional governments, one a republic and the other reactionary, are established. The republic, under the lead of one Suvaroff, finally triumphs by the use of great fleets of airships, and Suvaroff becomes the Napoleon of the land of the Romanoffs. 
   Germany, alarmed by the growth of Suvaroff's power, declares war on the Russian republic for the purpose of crushing her only serious rival for supremacy. The book contains thrilling descriptions of great aerial battles fought between rival Russian and German fleets of flying warships. After a prolonged struggle, in the course of which Suvaroff makes a sudden raid on Berlin and bombards the capital with terrible effect, Germany gains the final victory over Russia, and compels the Slavic republic to disgorge the Baltic provinces, Poland, and the southwestern provinces populated by the Ruthenians. The Baltic provinces are formed into a new kingdom, as is also Poland, both with Hohenzollern princes as rulers. The new kingdom of...

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Ruthenia similarly installs a new German dynasty on its throne. 
   All three states are closely affiliated to Germany, who thus obtains a predominant position in continental Europe. Germany now systematically increases her aerial fleet, and obtains sufficient influence to incorporate Austria-Hungary, Turkey, and the remaining Balkan states in a "European" league" under her own control. 
   In the year 1930 the German empire extends from the North Sea eastwards to Persia, embracing the western half of Russia, Austria-Hungary, and the entire Balkan peninsula. All these countries send deputies to the reichstag in Berlin, and unreservedly recognize the supremacy of the German emperor. 
   Germany subsequently absorbs Holland, Switzerland and Morocco, while Russia, where Suvaroff has meantime proclaimed himself czar, extends her rule over the greater part of Asia. In 1931 the czar undertakes the invasion   of India, Great Britain appeals to Germany to intervene to prevent the loss of her great Indian empire, which is entirely at the mercy of the Russian aggressor. Germany agrees to assist England, but only on the condition that British South Africa shall be immediately ceded to Germany. Great Britain, valuing India more than South...

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Africa, signs the treaty, ceding her African possessions to Germany, while the German government allows the czar 24 hours in which to abandon his attack on India. The czar yields, and Martin winds up his book with an appeal that more attention be given to the building of war airships. 
  Martin bases his belief in the rapid development of aerial warfare largely on the success achieved by Count Zeppelin with his new air ship in the trial trips on Lake Constance last fall. These trial trips, he declares, carried out in the presence of a distinguished company of experts, were a complete success, and proved that Count Zeppelin's air ship could sail against the wind at a speed of 30 miles an hour. the air ship, improved and perfected, represents, according to Marin, the most promising type of the future aerial war ship. 
   Apart from this air ship, Count Zeppelin has recently taken out a patent for an aerial train intended to facilitate the transport of troops. this aerial train consists of four air ships attached to one another. The first air ship has a balloon which lends it buoyancy and has a capacity of 30,000 cubic meters. It is driven by powerful motors. Its aluminum hull is capable of carrying 200 men. Three other air ships are connected with the first one as cars are attached to a locomotive. they carry no motors, but are drawn by the leading air ship. each of these aerial cars is capable of carrying 250 men in its aluminium hull.
   Count Zeppelin's complete aerial train can thus transport a thousand men, and, according to expert opinions which Martin collected before writing his book, there is no reason whatever why Germany should not possess 2,000 aerial war ships of this type by the year 1916. 

   LONDON, Feb 2-- Maj. F.S. Baden-Powell, president of the Aeronautical society, says of Martin's book: "I do not think England will be eaten up yet awhile, through the loss of its naval supremacy, by the perfection of air ships. Nevertheless, the whole question of aerial navigation is, extremely exciting at the present time, and it is a good thing that it should be bought prominently before the public, and it is also to be hoped that the authorities in England will keep themselves alive to the developments and possibilities of aeronautics."