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r; K. Weill, New York, a flying -out motors;" D.C. Bassett, of -o "expects to enter an airship to -thing." Here are the dispositions -suggested contests:
Aero Club championship, May 4;
-June 1; competition of ordinary
-nce, June 15; for durations, Aug. 3; 
-int, Sept. 7; for altitude, Nov. 16;
-ot balloon, Aug. 17.
-heavier than air, with motor and J. Norton Griffiths--Challenge Cup to winner of Daily Mail race.
Brookland Automobile Racing Cup--$12,500 to the aeronaut who is successful in flying around the Weybridge track, without touching ground from start to finish, at a height of thirty to fifty feet from the ground.
Ruinart Pere & Fils--$2,500 to the first aeroplane to fly from French shore to English shore or vice versa; from Cape-

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WAR-BALLOONING TO-DAY.

UNITED STATES--Signal Service of War Department of the United States has acquired a French dirigible and an American balloon and completed erection of an aerodrome at Form Omaha, where practical instruction and experiment in aeronautics has already commenced. Appropriation, $150,000. Lieut. Lahn detailed as instructor.
FRANCE--Maintains aeronautic corps. Accepted after tests in November and December the steerable airship Lebaudy; also La Patrie, of same type, which flew sixty miles and was always controllable at a speed of twenty-two miles an hour. Both successfully sailed by the army. A third, Republique, now under construction. All are for use on the frontiers of France.
GERMANY--Government authorized a lottery to enable Zeppelin to continue perfection of his airship at Lake Constance, with a Government grant of $150,000. It weighs nearly ten tons, but has circles two hours at a time 2,500 feet in the air, and sailed against a twelve-mile breeze and made eighteen miles.
GREAT BRITAIN--Royal Commission appointed to report on military uses of present airships. Balloons used in sham battles to study enemy's country.
All modern armies, except the Japanese, possess balloons to be used, captive and free, for signalling and observation. Japan and England are expected to oppose at The Hague efforts to do away with the prohibition against fighting from air machines.

Each--fort. torpedo boat battleship is strong for attack, but may be lost. That[?] units are intended to be lost. A battleship costs about the same as 300 torpedo-boats. A commander could afford to lost a great many of his 300 torpedo-boats if one a last should sink an enemy's battleship costing millions of dollars and carrying down 1,000 men. 
"Whenever we make a new engine of war, we make another to destroy it. Thus, after-