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German Prophet Predicts Great and Decisive Battle in the Upper Skies.

ARMED AIRSHIPS IN COMBAT

Rudolf Martin's Book, Fiction Though It Is, Has Made All Europe Uneasy,

Berlin, March 23. - The world triumph of Germany by means of an aerial navy is foretold in a book of prophetic history which has excited all of Europe. In this starting work the author, Rudolf Martin, predicts that the Kaiser will have extended the German Empire as far as Bagdad Western Asia, annexing Austria and Russia, by the year 1916, and this will have been mainly accomplished by a great fleet of armed airships.
The book is written with minute detail and much knowledge of international affairs and government. Herr Martin also has put into it a great deal of scientific knowledge, and impresses the reader with a sense of the high probability of what he foretells. Here is, a summary of the great events prophesied in this remarkable book: 

On New Year's Day, 1910, the German Emperor makes a speech to the generals and admirals assembled in Berlin. The monarch proves conclusively that the flying machine is the peculiar privilege of Germany; that "the future of Germany lies in the air."

But the speaker has counted without Japan. On October 2, 1912, Japan declares war against Russia. The Czar flies. The news of his flight reaches the Duma at 5 o'clock in the afternoon of March 15, 1913, and a motion is carried unanimously by which the house of Romanoff-Holstein-Gottorp is formally deposed and Russia declared a republic.

Throughout Russia anarchy breaks out. Men of strong personality come to the front in the general confusion, the chief of them, one Nicholas Sacharoff, of Moscow, assuming the position of dictator of Russia, and in his train carries upward one General Suwaroff-adventurer and military genius in airships.

Michael Suwaroff is president of the Baku Aero Club, established there because of the presence of the petroleum wells. Through the Zeppelin factories he has obtained a fleet of aeroplanes, made of aluminum. With these he plans the invasion of China.

No sooner are these plans complete - for Suwaroff traveling through the air has reconnoitered as far as Pekin - when everything is upset again by Germany's declaration of war on the Russian Republic, made on April 19, 1916. Suwaroff learns the news by wireless telegraphy on the same momentous afternoon at 3:12.

Like an arrow he pounces upon Poland, conquers it, and hastens onward to Berlin. There, after a few thousand yards above the city, the decisive conflict takes place, and the Germans are finally victorious. Suwaroff flees into the fastness of the Pamir plateau.

From this moment dates the expansion of Germany to Bagdad. The peace of Warsaw, signed on May 10, 1916, makes the Kaiser practically dictator of the world. Austria and Hungary, Poland and Russia, Asia Minor and Persia, all are tranquilly annexed. By 1830 the Germanic domination - vast, militant, prosperous - extends from Berlin to Bagdad unimpeded.

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[[?]] Telegraph - New York
24 Mar - 1907
BIGGEST BALLOON SAILS O'ER JERSEY
Allan R. Hawley, of New York, and A. N. Chandler of Philadelphia, the Voyagers.

LANDING NEAR ATLANTIC CITY
Ascension and Trip From Philadelphia One of the Most Successful Ever Made.

(Special Dispatch to The Morning Telegraph.)
PHILADELPHIA, March 23.
Allan R. Hawley of the New York Aero Club and A. N. Chandler, president of the Philadelphia Aero Club, this afternoon made one of the most successful balloon ascensions ever witnessed in this city. The landing was made safely at Pleasantville, N. J., near Atlantic City.
Without hitch or misadventure of any kind the big balloon Initian rose from its anchorage in the athletic field of the Point Breeze Gas Works at 12.25 o'clock and sailed majestically away toward the flat shores of New Jersey. A large crowd gave the aerial voyagers a rousing sendoff.
Edmond Chandler of New York. Leo Stevens, the aeronaut, and John Mack his assistant, aided by half a dozen work-men, attended to the filling of the balloon. Although enarly forty thousand cubic feet of gas were required to charge the shapeless mass of yellow silk into a balloon, the operation was accomplished in less than two hours.
There was a delay in starting, as President Cortlandt Bishop, Augustus Post and N. H. Edwards of the New York Aero Club, who made the journey from Gotham in an auto, were a trifle late in arriving.
Finally they appeared with Dr. Samuel H. Ottinger, an ethusiastic member of the Philadelphia Aero Club, and Mrs. Ottinger and Professor Samuel King the oldest living aeronaut, and Mrs. King. Mr. Stevens had expected to make the trip, as Mr. Chandler, who was not feeling well last night, had almost determined not to go, but the beauty of the day and the perfect weather conditions caused him to change his mind and Mr. Stevens, to his great disappointment, was left behind.
At first the balloon rose only about 300 feet, but finding that they had struck an erratic eddy of the wind and were being carried toward the west, Mr. Hawley quickly emptied a bag of sand, and the big balloon shot upward some 200 feet more, caught the right current and was soon sailing toward the southeast.
Several members of the Philadelphia Aero Club, with Secretary Davis, of the Philadelphia Auto Club, left the Belle-Cue[[?]]-Stratford at 1 o'clock in a fast racing car, determined not to let the voyagers get out of sight.

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