WAR IN 2023.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIV, Issue 805, 7 September 1923, Page 5

WAR IN 2023.

WORLD AIR BATTLES.

ELECTRIFIED WATER.

LONDON, Aug) t, i A grimi picture: of tli3- picture of warn comes coihadently, with trio meeting of U. , League, of > r . Profassxjr Jiow, writing in the -"Nin* toenth. Centftry and After?*' & am article en> I titled,, "How shall; wo fight,ajhundrad'yowit hence?" says ; that. war is natural:, ' Atti nature fights, evtn.trees and: flowers. Worlds wars may become less freuant, but the banishment of war. : would be aft. stranga, as eternal life." ' . ' \ ' ' "Civilisation will leap forward in the next' sentury, butf there will ba warfare,, terribjflt though brief. •' "We ; shall not reach, a. state, of* develop', ment at which a. group of.scientists afe a.i switchboard will be. able, to deal-destruction! by means- of; long distanbe> sa-j;*. the Professor. "That is a.'vision of. the far future, a. battle in 2025" will be-less localised: than 1914. Britain will.be called on to defend'the entire Empire, and this will cowpel the use of amazingly fast ejodt large* aeroplanes to transport men and--munitions, across the world. • - MORE "FRIGHTFULNESSi" \ ' "There is not the sligKtest 'doubt thatthe' deciding- factor will be frightfulness in, the advanced form of propaganda} broadcasted* by means of universal wireless, and. re-' ceived: in. every-home, ■'•••' ; . . '-' * "Poison: gas: will be more dreadful than) anything previously dreamt of. Cavalry will bo rendered obsolete by the J l36 "* Professor Low's own invention^. ; nighljs- - water-jets, electrocuting men and beasts." • • •• That women will' play as important * part as men in battle is only to be expected, because already they have;adapted;'themselves to-all other masculipu- pursuits. The women who., helped- tq make shells, in; tbet Great, War, had no reason to complain ot, boing bombed b«causo they were, vital factors, in. winning the war. Therefore,, they would be.attacked m future. . The aeroplanes would-be invisible and! silent, necessitating coloured' searchlight?to detect them. ' . , The- surest means of fighting, aeroplanefc wouldi be tho # impregnation, of tbe.mgher atmosphero. with poison* gas.. ' j Wireless, would.piny an important, part.. It would bo used, for relephony, heat, power and writing, and would also secretly control torpedoes, tanks and aeroplanes. "At present by the expenditure of thrcfrhorsepower, I can destroy a wire d parddistant without any connection. Therefore, it is obvious that, in the fan futuresufiioient wireless- power will: be developed* to destroy, aircraft a. quarter of a.mile.away,, and also to destroy, the delicate.rigging; ot aeroplanes by wireless heat. ' "MYSTERY TOWERS;''. - . Battleships.'will bo supctsedSd by; floating; fortrasses like a Shorcham...- .. There will be. "mystery- towers, and also flying submarines, combining th*v functions, ot "tanks," subinirihgs. and. aeroplanes. Thew submarines will evade do? tectibn, defeating the present listening apparatus, by emitting-powerful disturbance?. A new method- of detection!' will' there-' fore be needed, probably.a Wireless-' sight, meaning radio detection as used detect water below-tho-ground- This is still m its '"officers will live underground, in scientific dugouts, wearing suits electrically heated by a plugging connection in the wall, i»ental telepathy now confined to the music hall tricksters, may. in "the next century, become a' scientific possibility, and : pr« - vide a valuable means of communication.