A POSSIBILITY OF FUTURE WARS
A French friend lately told Mr H. W. Lucy a fantastic story illustrative of the almost feverish zesil with which France is preparing for the contingency of war. "The War Office have for come time been experimenting with an infernal machine, war muted to make en end of any force that Germany may bo eblo to put in the field. It is a balloon! ballasted with explosives. Capable of guidance with the unerring aim of a quick-firing gun. it. can I>e directed over any camp formed with hostile purposes, n shower of explosives dropped, npd straightway an end of tho camp. Of course, sis my friend tuavolv suggested, attention need not be limited to armoured camps. There is Berlin, for example, which might Iks practically .exterminated us by a flash of lightning. Tin's i« .<o horrible that it more resembles the phantasy of si homicidal madman than the calculations of a department of State in a. civilised nation. The educated, polished Parisinn ipoke of it as a prosaic matter of fact, claiming for it the merit that, though perhaps n little gruesome, it will by that very quality act in tho laudable direction of putting an end to war."
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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 12479, 16 April 1906, Page 7
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