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v x a. ' New Aerial Weapons Used by 12- vr;;'y v. the Italians; Against th e ' W : r - I iv- ' Turks with Frightful Effect Fulfill t , 'tv:V f-n - V " -. '7;' Ilia , p "yEgU. ' - ' - V SrXZ ..:) : of : ; J & Experts ," ' " f':, ' 6 eat. slmlUr. wtaforc. "''. . .-KJr fy - nBt t7"wy of,tJi!lted Sm, i -N ?!4 Ijrfjy - thrwjih- Abyulnlt ud th Soadu. 1 ' n . f 7-3 sto.th hlntwLnd of:TrIpoU. Bt: -'""vX Jtt '" ; ' '.ttm mh.-wi foot u km4'It . tXt' -; y ? W ' .,(ettlM'rmttottbttngl.' I I jytLy.-, ; ThoooriooiiclentlfleToiiiifTurki ' - 1 . ' fcT there,or una to tielronly -, I Vf.1' PC ZZ? op-tt flgbtlDff MropteM. MlMf i '. V-V'-:"r tik Z-: bvo purchMrt modeU of the bort',' - v ,--Vv",-yi,n.N,. l.ib (.yV" ' "htlBf nuchlne from U tbo coub-' , . ' T "V'-i VAfVw JT jr ! tho world, tod tboro m ' . fr 1 zl no Koroi of them. They bto ob- I --" " ,i J1 Uined them from Franee, Germany, ' I '"'i J ',";' - , , Enctand nd the ValtM BUteo. " j x i. They hT the new EngUkh ante - ill II I . French mmchlne which drope pack- 1 i J ; ;. t , , it V n't , . . r . " V I . - Henri Lanos' Wonderfully Vivid Picture of the Horrors of I "War u the Air Which Is Now Being Realised by , the t . Turks and Italians b the Tripoli Conflict T-0R. the first time airships h1 r , played a part la .real war. They have been need by the Italians In their -war agalnit the Turk la Tripoli, and they wiU sooa be used by the Turks In retaliation. This means a great revolution In' war, and a very terrible one. Its sig nificance has not yet been fully graaped. Aeroplanes have already done terrible execution. . They have proved tbemaehe capable of all the deadly snd destructive' effect pre-' dieted for4bm.:(.l- Th wildly fanUatio scene of hor ror Snd bloodshed foreseen by H. G. Walls in hi" scientifically lmaglna- tlv romano Tb War In the Air." may soon be reamed. In fact they bar already beguo to be realized. The aews dispatches describe how the IUllaa dictgible balloons at tacked the Turkish position at Al sia,tn Tripoli. Two alratalp dropped bomb filled with shrapnel over the , Turkish encampment Th ha too they worked wa terrible. Hen and norsea were blown to piece. The -i Turk ran U-every direction and quickly abandoned the camp. A oorrespondent who was within the Turkish lines, and who luckily ' . escaped with bis Ufa, thu describes th attack of th aerial fleet: "teetorday the enemy' dirigible . agaia cam Into action, the two air-, ships from Tripoli working west ward over our lines and dropping ' bombs as they proceeded. ' ' "They halted over Zancur and a ' bomb was dropped into that village, which killed four persons and wounded ten, all boa-combatant. 3 "The dirigible then turned . toward Azixia. the headquarters of fceeciat Bey. marking their path with the Mack amok of exploding , bombs. ' ' "Slowly the ,Awa.airb4-s closed right ever us. There was a moment ; f suspense, ted tisea caate a taint, . singing sound, gradually bccomln louder, . until, with , a great crash. the first bomb burst fifty yards away from where I' waa standing', wtth members of the headquarter staff, including foreign attaches." In the battle at the oaala of Bent Hainan, the Italian aeroplanes flew over the retreating Turk and blew two thousand of them JJo shreds by b Imply dropping bomb after. bomb upon them. , ' ; At another time the Italian aero-' planes overtook a column of Turts retreating through the desert from Kaar Zafrsa to Unvel-Ghorbal and blew hundred of them 'to piece. The column wss so broken up that thoee who were not' killed or man gled fled into ths desrt.and per hhed from hsnger. thlr and terror. Finding from their first expert- . enoes how very effective the serial weapon are, the Italians have se cured the latest and - most - deadly .' models. '; They have, among many other.de--' vices, a bomb which, dropped from - an aeroplane 'at night, will brilliant ly illuminate the politico over which It is placed, thus giting the artillery ' ' 1 an opportunity to take exact aim, which ha hitherto been Impossible at night. i " The lame bomb wtH crests a thick cloud of smoke pver a position; last- tng for upward of half an hour. This will' enable the artillery' by day to , fire accurately upon a concealed po-lUon- . ' In order to meet 'counter attacks la the air by the Turks, the Ital ' mn army has been -furnished with, a doten of the new Krupp guns for fighting airship. This gun. fires a ' shell that win not only, destroy, the airahlp which it hits, but will release gases that win suffocate an aero- ,' . pianists within a range of one hun , dred yard In every direction and bring them tumbling to the ground. Coyrrlfht lill. . . - , , - ' 1 ' f - - - ' --! t . - ' . ' ' -f t ''-k i 1. ; '.': . . ,.?x ' -v". v " , ; . It. " ' " - , . . 4 : V v i 1 ' . ' -tc'. "rw, j , , - , , M . - Vs. - ' ''5," " S , ' , - 1, 1 ' ' ' - i ' ' ' v " ..: . ... , . .... m This gun can V fired vertically ; in the air, 'and the sighting arrange- . ment In so constructed with the aid of mirrors that the gunner can alm ; while he stands upright . . '' The Turks, It -Is reported, .hive now obtained a supply of flying ma chines and are ready-to-flght back In - , the air. They have decided that,. , the one last desparat chance' they,; possess t drive ths Itahaos out of' Tripoli Is by airship, warfare., Th' iToung Turks, as th men who have , gained control of .Turkey .sine the' -last. revolution, are called, are not-, barbarians. , They, include many me educated ln: th best "European uni- ' ve rattles sad scieiiUfle achools. . : , These cunning Turk know that . they cannot . dislodge the Italians, ' whb are now holding Tripoli In the i intereat of Christianity and dviliaa- tlon. by any ' method of warfare hitherto employed. The Italians have th mea and th mosey. ; They '. have the seacoaat of TrtpoB and ' ' they have th force and courage to ' bold it .... I , ; I The Turks hare no hops of Bead- lug ' great reinforcements by - ship. They. have, indeed, succeeded in landing email parties of men with ' supplies : and arnmuaittoa snrrspU-' ti0Biy oa th coaet of Tripoli They- by Aawrkaa-Exaalnerv - Greet Britain - - Sunday momlBg a Taritlia alrstiip .y f", should sendsa .Italiaa .toppling V v " ' '. " .;v '.'.'' rwa e detruio on'the spike of - -X- ' . ' '. 1 j.V .m Mohammedan mmdret! ' x'" " V This strange seen from Wens' How, 5 ' description of the great battle is ' ' the ' ' V the atr between the German, Amer- " ' ' leans and Astatles sisy yet be rest - 'New " Vf ' ; bed ta,,all Its essential detaito: " ' 4 ' ' "Abruptly something dropped from Italian. ; : CZll U :t0 1 f - Destroy .t 0, - AirOaft C ' ;r ' - - - - - I Right Baeervec,' fee of dynamite accurately through a hole In the bottom, and a German machine that dealt out bomb filled with potsonoui gaiea. ; The Turk have been itoring up the .machine for month, and month.' They, have been' training their most, daring soldier . to nee them with 'deadly effect, and even now the machine, with their crew, are .' being smuggled Into . Africa through tse rartou channel by which gun and supplies are always The Aeroplane) Shell in Transit, 1 Day and a Luminous Line at Gunner to Correct Their rUng e. How Ut Nww IjwSflo .CwTiod conveyed to a blockaded belllterenL , At any' moment we may expect the moat fantaitlo and ..terrifying eombaU;the h,uman mind )vnt. ooa-clTed,-combat that mutt rack the nerreo and aear the brain of thoae who Teature Into them In a manner never et known In warfare., '; : In theae combat the altghteit In Jury to the fighting . machine moat mean' a terrible deathc to all within It. One touch of aMwrolTer' ballet on the delicate meenanlim. of the roplane'a motor' and the whole craft will go tumbling wildly down through the air, perhapt 1,000 teet, to the earth, or aanda. or rocki be-' neath. Every human being in It will be ernihed out or all: human . aen ""blanoe," How . the hit and doomed aero plane, will struggle, like k'vidous wounded TuKure, to inflict Jut one .fatal, blow on.it an tagoalrt before it fall lUelf to perdition 1 ta many ' ,ce,-doubtIeM,, If tne.eombatuta are really desperate, they must both fall. together, to a common' doom ol crushed and hapele-flah.'- . What a1 bttte? ' comment . on the progreu of dvlllraUon aad.nnlre- sal' brotherhood -it- would-be-if oa It Lea re a Trail of Smoke by Nifht, Thus Enabling the - -- v - by Ainhipa I Aimed t a Ship. the senith; something like a barrel . or a bug football. . . - . "Crash! It smashed with an im ". mense report It had fallen among .'the grounded v aeroplanes that lay among the turf and flower beds near ' the river. They flew in scrap and 1 fragment; turf." tree and gravel leapt and fell; the aeronauts tlll - lying along the canal bank were '; thrown about like sacks; catspaws ; flew across ths foaming water. All -the window of the hotel hospital that had been shlnlngly reflecting ,' blue sky and airship th moment before became vast black stars. r Bang! a ' second followed. ' Bert looked up and was tilled with aeense -of a number of monstrous. bodies swooping down, coming down on the whole affair Hks a flight of bellying blankets, like a string of .vast dish . covers. Th: central tangle of th battle above wa circling, down a If to come Into touch with, the power - house fight , He got a new effect of .airships together, as - vast . things , coming down upon him, growing swiftly larger and larger and mors overwhelming, until the house over the way seemed small, the American rapids narrow, the bridge flimsy, the ' combatants infinitesimal. A they . came down they became audible as ' complex- of ..shoutings ' and vast '.creaUngs and greasings and beat ', ings and throbbing and shout and shots. . The . foreshortened , black eagles st the for ends of th Oer ' mans bad' an effect of actual com bat of flying feathers. "Some of these lighting' airships came within Ave iundred feet of the ground.' Bert could see men on the ' lower galleries of 'the Germans, fir ing rifles; could; see Asiatics cling ing to the ropes; saw one mas in 'aluminum diver's gear fall flashing headlong Into the water above Goat Island. : For the first time he saw the' Asiatic airships closely.,' From this aapeet they, reminded him more than anything else of colossal snow shoes; they had s curious pattero "lng is black snd white,; in forms , that reminded him "of - th "engine turned cover of s watch." '- '. .Henri -Lanos. the. brilliant snd imaginative Spanish srtist, has made ' a stirring picture of the kind of scene w may witness in the aerial war bet wen the Italians snd Turks. Here the- opponents .nave fallen down to. a oommoa destruction, a of delicate machinery and life- lea mea symbols alike of the highest genius of man and the cruel paasloas that (till posses him. . t