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Britain of the tremendous gain now accruing from the ocean beating on her shores. At the same time the Himalayas as a natural defense to India will be utterly destroyed.
   Moreover, when aerial navigation becomes general, as will be the case within a few years, the British navy will be reduced to comparative insignificance. The contest for the supremacy of the world will begin over again and this struggle for a predominant position will be fought out in the air.
        Germany's Advantage.
  Prof. Martin develops this theory in a narrative of events from 1910 to 1930. He maintains that Germany possesses a great advantage over all rials in exploiting the military advantages of airships. He admits that Britain and America may build aerial fleets equal to that of Germany, but they will will not possess the great army which will be necessary to follow the victories gained by flying warships. Germany, on the other hand starts on a level with her rivals in respects to building aerial warships, and if she can obtain the supremacy of the air she can overwhelm a hostile country with her millions of troops conveyed thither by aerial transport.
  The author describes an imaginary war which breaks out between Japan and Russian in 1913 and terminates in the crushing defeat of the Russian Empire. Japan scores this unprecedented triumph solely by means of her magnificent aerial fleet of warships and transports which first enables her to bombard the Russian position from the clouds and then plant hundreds of thousands of troops in the rear of the Russian army. Finally, 800,000  Japanese surround 700,000 Russians in the Siberian battlefield and compel the Czar's army to surrender.
  A bloody revolution in European Russia ensues. The dynasty is overthrown and an attempt at flight by motorcar by the Czar is frustrated. The Czar appeals by wireless telegraph to the Kaiser, who rushes two German aerial warships to the rescue of the ex-Autocrat of All the Russias from his besieged palace, around which thousands of revolutionists are clamoring for his blood.
       Break Up of Russia
 Unrestrained anarchy ensues throughout Russia, which splits up into hundreds of miniature independent communes. Then an ambitious young engineer named Suvaroff, an expert in aerial navigation, assumes the control of the Republic of Moscow, and endows his State with a powerful aerial fleet. This enables him gradually to subdue the remainder of Russia and also to carry out the conquest of Central Asia. In course of time Suvaroff proclaims himself Czar of Russia under the name of Micheal, and re-establishes the power of the country by means of his formidable aerial fleet.
 Meanwhile Germany outstrips all competitors in respect to the construction of aerial warships. In 1910 the Kaiser makes a speech wherein he proclaims the necessity of building an aerial fleet to destroy Britain's naval supremacy. Thereupon Germany constructs a great fleet of flying warships, besides sufficient aerial transport to enable half a million German troops to be landed in England during a single night between the hours of 12 and 4.
 The Kaiser alarmed by the growth of the power of Czar Micheal, the Russian Napoleon, declares war on Russia, and a stubborn contest for the supremacy of the air takes place. 
     Battle of the Sky
  Prof. Martin has written a thrilling, lurid description of the aerial battles which ensue between the Russian and German fleets of flying warships. The aerial warships are riddled with shells and fall from a height of 10,000 feet. The crews are provided with parachutes instead of lifebelts, so that sometimes they are able to save themselves, despite accidents in midair. Great flying battleships ram one another at dizzy altitudes in intervals of dropping destructive bombs on hapless hostile armies beneath them.
 One of the most exciting incidents of the war is an aerial raid on Berlin under the personal leadership of the Czar, whose flying warships work havoc by bombarding the hapless capital. One fine morning the Russian fleet swoops down from the clouds and destroys the Kaiser's palace, all the Government buildings, all the barracks and military fortifications and slaughters thousands on thousands of german troops, who are deprives of the protection of their own aerial fleet and are helpless against their soaring antagonists.
 But Germany, thanks to her superiority in aerial warfare, finally defeats Russia, and then proceeds to make herself mistress of the world. The western half of European Russia is now divided into three new kingdoms, in which Germany then absorbs Austria-Hungary, all the smaller Balkan states, and Turkey. Later Switzerland and Holland are likewise swallowed up.
     Where Britain Begs
 All these countries retain their individual governments, but acknowledge Germany's supreme authority. The German Empire extends to Central Asia, and after the whole of Asia Minor and Persia, and absorbed, Mocco follows in due course. 
 Finally, when Russia invades India with her magnificent aerial fleet. Britain is obliged to apply to the Kaiser or assistance, which is not immediately forthcoming. Germany drives a hard bargain by offering to save India from the Russians in return for British South Africa. Britain, having no other choice, cedes the whole of South Africa to Germany, and the Germany Government summons the Russians to evacuate India under threat war.
  Germany's mastery of the air is so complete that Russia submits, after which Britain, shorn of her African possessions, conclude a treaty of friendship with her protector, the German Emperor.
 The book is exciting great interest along German naval and military.