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Clutha Leader, Volume XXXV, Issue 2126, 29 January 1909, Page 1

The invasion of England has recently been discussed by members of the British Cabinet at speeches delivered at various centres of the United Kingdom. In view of these possibilities the following is of interest-.—After Mr Eric Stuart Bruce, the hon. secretary of the Aeronautical Society of Great Britain, had read a paper on mechanical flight at the London Society of Arts, Sir Hiram Maxim discussed the value of the flying machine in war. He said that the Wright machine, with a very little improvement, would be a very efficient military weapon. It would do a great deal that a gun could not do, and at a greater distance. Undoubtedly if we should find ourselves at war, such machines would be used to bombard English towns. A French engineer who was in a position to know informed 1 him only a short time ago that in one 1 year machines would be made in Prance that would fly from Paris to London without a stop. Such machines were possible, and when they came London might bo attacked without encounterin«r the dreaded British Navy. The onlv way to meet them was to make flying machines ourselves. Although not a young man he wan an active.old man, and he would do his best to keep his country abreast in the new ideao*,