Evening Star Newspaper, July 24, 1921, Page 6

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And a 4.7 anti-aircraft type will prob- ably be rushed through production to replace the three-inch gun used chief- ly during wartime (for ranges up to 25,000 feet), and produced in large numbers for the trained “archy” per- sonnel which must now be developed. Ordnance officlals also will_ probably develop a 37-millimeter machine gun type which can discharge one-pound projectiles in a steady automatic stream against armored aircraft. Ten-Ton Bombs in Sight. G. Development of a 4,000-pound tomb in the immediate futur, and ex- perimental work on still 1a; er types (up to the ten-ton size) in the course of the fiscal year. Especially will ex- bomb, one of which was all ready for test on the Ostfriesland. ' H. Rapld increase and organisation of & larger air service to supplement the coast defense organization and protect our great length of seacoast from all kinds of attack. I Production of amphibious aircraft Wwhich can land either on land or sea with equal ease and safety. Planes Fly 60,000 Miles. No official report hag yet been is- sued by the boarg of observers charged with making a detailed ac- count of the alrcraft attack. But many of the officials and civilians who had such excellent views of the maneuvers from the decks of the transport Henderson saw enough to draw these conclusions: 1. Land planes made their long 300-mile flights over /sea in windy weather with speed and certainty, promptly locating their target, ma- neuvering in proper military pre- cision and formation and returned safely without engine fault or cas- ualty to personnel after a total 60,000 miles of airplane travel. 2. Radio control of aircraft was entirely adequate, and communica- tion with shore made their operation far to sea easily possible. 3. The aerial bombing, despite the infancy of the science, was equal to, If not better than, the average per- formance of heavy artillery at long range, despite the latter's centurles of evolution. 4. Heavy bombs will destroy the most unsinkable type of battleship that has been bullt today, it allowed to get within striking distance. 5. One-ton bombs of TNT will sink a capital ship much faster than it can be sunk by fleet gunfire of any kind. Comment of the leading officials who observed the tests follows: Built to Be Unsinkable. Capt. Hollweg, (who brought the Ostfriesland from Firth of korth to America): “She was a wonderful shi built speciailly on Admiral von Ti pitz’ orders to make battleships as nearly unsinkable as possible. had four skins to protect her against mines and torpedoes and heavy pro- Joctiles. She was also divided into {many watertight compartments by bulkheads, 80 that, no matter how many big holes were made in her hulls, she woudl still be able to get home. Not even a telephone wire pierced these bulkheads, which were leakproof. She had three separate engines; no openings of any kind in her hull; and the English, on measur- ing her, found her total tonnage to be 27,000 instead of the underesti- mate, 22,800 tons, given out by the [ German; She had as much buoy- ancy and resistance to gunfire as any vessel we have today.” Secretary of the Navy Denby: “Brig. Gen. Mitchell is to be co: gratulated. His was a splendid per- formance from which the Navy will profit.” It shows the immediate ne- cessity of airplane carriers. If af plane attack can show such deadly results, the Navy must also have air- jcraft defense against attacking air- craft. periments be directed toward the per- fecting of an armor-piercing aerial Much Still to Learn. Secretary of War Weeks: “The air- craft forces showed their ability to work effectively at a great distance offshore. Not a single plane was lost. Gen. Mitchell himself covered more than 700 miles in a single day. But, of course, the results might have been much different if the weather had been bad, and the visibility low; also if the target had been steaming twenty knots per hour, and able to efend itself. We still have much to learn.” Gen. Menoher, chief of the Army air service: “We have been taught an- other hard, cold fact, namely, that heavy aircraft bombe can sink a first-class battleship with indirect its. That fact alone will settle many arguments and uncertainties. We do not contend that the battle- ship will therefore be eliminated, but ionly that from now on the airplane ‘constitutes one of its deadliest ene- mies.” nator Poindexter, chairman of the n:;:ul affairs committee: “The test is most creditable to the Army air serv- ice. It shows great improvements hge been made in bomb dropping. We must experiment further with bombs and torpedoes, as we are on the threshold of great things from them both. The moral is that we must have more aircraft for both aur Army and Navy.” Great Need for Carrlers. Capt. Moffett, chief of the Navy's bureau of aeronautics: “The lesson is we must put planes on battle- :gfi-. :nd get aircraft carriers quick- 1y. I regret that Congress.in the naval bill failed to provide for airplane carriers. That i8 now the great need. We must now get them and quick ‘We must put aviators on all our ba tleships to enable them to ward off air bombing attacks, as a temporary measure, until we can get the airplane carriers and a more adequate de- i lume, “Quarterdeck,” is widely {nown : ‘gna result of the Ostfries- 1and sinking may be the abolition of intercontinental wars, since the.de- fender could easily sink the attack- ing transports and fighting ships, as soon as he could muster an over- whelming air force to concentrate againt them.” ward A. Coffin, formerly chair- i the Council of National De- fense: “These tests will give many 'people a much needed jolt. It was an overwhelming viatory for the air service, attached to both Army and Navy. If you estimate an average of forty planes in ope; on for a di tance of 300 miles each, for each of the, five days, you e that there wasn't a single motor Fullam (whose nom de continent, or two and a half times round the world. There is not now in the world another motor that can compare with the liberty motor for excellence in construction, sure pers ‘formance or adaptabllity to quantity production.” Fleet Must Control Afr. Glenn Martin, producer of the Mar- tin bomber: “The large percentage of hits and the great aize of the bombs used In these tests show that no fleet afloat today is safe if it once loses control of the air. Control of the sea does not mean everything as formerly. Control of the air is the determinant factor. Watching the tests, I wondered that so small an oftensive equipment could destroy th monarch of the seas with its great bulk and its personnel of from 2.000 to 3,000 men for war-time service, I belleve the future bombing air fleet will be made up much as the present Atlantic fleet is. “The backbone will be enormous bombers carrying one and two ton bombs, and possibly even a ten-ton bomb that will blot out the battie- ship at one blow. Then, surround- Ing_ and protecting these bombers, there will be small pursuit planes that can travel 200 miles per hour and reconnaissance planes that can observe and direct all maneuver: ‘Where we have thought of ' 2,00 pounds as a big bombing load, I may next year have a bomber that will carry” 7,500 pounds of bombs and 8,000 pounds of gasoline, so it can travel 1,000 miles to sea and back jagain at an average of 100 miles per hour. We are just beginning to dis- cover what we can do.” Dream Tests Renlized. August Post, secretary of the Aero club of America: “As the Boston aviation meet in 1909 we marked out the outline of a battleship on the ground and dropped or: es and bags of flour on it in simultation of bombs. These tests are the realities; our old dreams now come true. I feel free to make the prediction also that the future will see even greater and more rapid advances than the past. Newer types will travel twice as far and carry twice as large a useful load. Aircraft will be a greater mili- tary power than ever, since its affec- tiveness will be so great against sub- marines, destroyers, transports and supply ships that the great battle- ships themselves will be greatly handicapped even it they should avoid destruction. Navy men will find lit- tle consolation in arguing that the Ostfriesland could not have been hit when under full speed. The time will come when, bith better sights for bombing, a fast. easier to hit than a stationary tar, This because the bomber does not p. over his target so rapidly, and there- fore has more time to sight and hit.” Col. John W. Joyce, ordnance: “I suppose I was about the first Army officer to experiment with bomb dropping. It was at San Diego in 1913 that Glenn Martin and I rigged up a little old plane and used explosive bombs that weighed only fifteen and twenty-five pounds. ‘We dropped about 200 of them, all told, and I pre: pared then an elaborote report d scribing what we had accomplished in the way of accuracy and advocating the theory of air bombing in warfare. Report Was Pigeonholed. “It aroused a lot of smiling and kid- <ding, and shortly after went into a pigeonhole and never again saw the light of day. These big 2,000-pound bombs and Glenn's big Libertied planes are a heap different from that bombing plane of 1913. And I sup- pose the ne:"z eight years will result in just as nluch progress over what we have today.” Maj. Borden, ordnance bomb ex- pert: “QOur Army bombs, originally designed for land target use, had small penetrative value, since they were supposed only to crash through a factory or warehouse roof and ex- plode. We had some hard work per- fecting_this new type for deep-sea us We used a very short delay fuse. ¢1.2 seconds only on the nose fuse and .05 second on the tail fuse), |50 that the bomb would explode on or near the first deck it struck. Other- wise the light-weight case we use would be crushed and the charge broken up before it could be exploded jby detonation. TNT will not ignite or explode from a crash. It must be detonated by its fuse. This type fuse would also gave us explosion from twenty to thirty feet under water, Where the heavy tamping effect of this depth would throw the greatest force of the charge against the ship's :;]u. This is the reason that Nav cers noted ‘no penetration - tective decks. ¥ ot pe “We also prepared an armor-plerc- 'lng bomb, converted from a twelve- inch shell, which would have pierced three inches of armor when dropped from 15,000 feet altitude. But for jSome reason this was not used in the tests. Bombing in Its Infanc; “The science of bombing is in its Infvl-ncy only. If we could have more TNT to make bombs with, instead of having to dilute them with amatol, we could make better showings. We would like to experiment with analite, which has a surprising blast effect, but it s difficult to handle, and our resources are limited. The allies in the war chiefly used twenty-five- pound bombs for fragmentation work, In destroying personnel; and 100- pound bombs for demolition of am- munition dumps, depots, towns and railroads. They had a very few of the large type bombs, but had made little progress with them, and had no air- planes to handle them properly. Our bombs are all designed in Washing- ton, built in Frankford arsenal, load- ed at Picatinny arsenal and tested at Aberdeen, Md. We look forward to {much larger bombs soon.” Maj. Miles, ordnance officer charge of Picatinny arsenal: had had much trouble getting th new type of water-contact bomb per- fected. In fact, the Navy had the laugh on us three months ago. But this contest developed.enough of the competitive spirit, and extra punch and allowances, to solve all our trou- bles. It was chiefly a matter of re- adjusting the fuse control. But we sweat blood for days and nights in ex- perimentation before we got it. I be- lieve the rivalry of these tests did more to 8olve our bomb problems than any amount of professional zeal would have done.” New Menace to Fleets. Maj. Gen. C. C. Williams, chief of ordnance: “These bombing tests were epoch-making. Aircraft is undoubt- It is a scientific made by beauty. exmm pfgse of sa/ely remoring | underarms. edly & new menace to fleets, quite the equal of the submarine. But all ba tleshigis have not gone down yet with the Ostfriesland. {Mllnvl the dread- raught will continue as the backbone of navies just as infantry and artil- lery continue to mainstay the Army. ‘The natural defense against aircraft is simply more aircraft, I congratu- late Gen. Mitehell on the remarkable skill with which he handled his forces and the great accuracy of the bomb sighting. It was a mighty good job all round. g\lnfln is a very difficult proposition ecause your et moves in three dimensions inst of two. But those who control the air in the future will do the bombi and those who bomb will make it almighty hot for those ho_get bombed. Such bombing aa oyed the Ostfriesland could also 1p: destroyers. I don't belleve the world will ever again see great bodies of men moved overseas as we moved them in 1917 and ‘18, defended with aircraft need fear no other navy, however great, so long as -it, controls the air along its se: coasts.” Brig. Gen. Snow, chief of Field Artillery: 'he tremendous destruc- tive power and remarkable accuracy |of the big bombs impressed me. The percentage of hits was equal to. If not greater, than that of heavy antiilery at long range., Better gtill, their range was from 100 to 200 miles off shore, instead of fifteen or twenty miles only. I do not regard aircraft as an elimi- nant, but just as a new element among our military arms. Terrible Effect of Gas. Brig. Gen. Fries, chief of Chemical ‘Warfare Service: “I believe that gas or smoke in the small-type bombs, which could be loosed in large num- bers over a ship, would have a ter- rible effect on any crew of men, owing to the ventilation system which forces air from the deck Into all subdeck compartments. Mustard gas hangs around for weeks, and it would terribly burn a crew long after the attack was over, {f not cleaned off carefully with chioride of lime. 1 am anxious to have a ship for some A nation well | moi experiment with tear gas which would not injure the personn: but would demonstrate how much we need ex- t from gas attacks on ships with forced draught ventilation. It ap- to me that this new test has shown that a defending nation has a very decided advantage over any at- tacking nation, providing it is well supplied with aircraft.’ Maj. Frank, Air Servic ‘We expect to use the old ship Alabama for some strictly Air Service tests just as soon as the Navy can dismantle it and turn it over. We plan to make the test on a tactical basis, using gas attacks, with animals for experi- mental results, and big bombs to show how quickly we can sink her. I looks now as though it were impo sible to build a battleship that can- not be sunk. That being the case, an adequate air establishment is the only safe and sure line of defense for this country. Benedict Crowell, formerly assist- ant gecretary of war: “This is the rermarkable military demon- strration 1 have ever seen. It speaks volumes fo: aircraft at just the time when we are trying to make up our public mind what policy to pursue in the matter of disarmament and con- tinued armament. We need more of just such frank and full discussion throughout the land as this test has aroused. The more people realize our military problem the more willing they will be to back it up. Our mili- tary establishment can properly boast ithe flower of our manhood. It is great service, and the national dec sions now in the making are all im- pojtant” . Air Commodore Charlton of the British royal air force: “The bombs that destroyed the Ostfriesland will be heard around the world. That's been said before, but it's just as true as ever it wi MR. WILSON AT THEATER. Former President Wilson and Mrs. ‘Wilson, with John Randolph Bolling and R. W. Bolling, attended B. F. Keltl ‘Theater last evening. The party, as usual, were the recipients of | much applause from the audien IMPORTANT ARRESTS. D. C. Police Believe They Have Cleared Up Two Recent Robberies, ‘Through the arrest of two men y. terday, police belleve they have c! ed up both the $2,033 burglary of the ‘Willett S8hop, 1345 Pennsylvania ave- ' nue and the robbery of G. R. Blake of Indianapolis, Ind., from whom was taken $50 in cash and & $1,500 ring by colored automobile bandits on th: Speedway early this week. ¥ ‘The men, who are charged wit} housebreaking, assault and robber: are William Nicholas Bowie, colore of 1800 11th street and Benjamin Grice nineteen, colored, of 1702 11th strect Detectives Pratt, Darnall, Cox, Ver- million, Jones and Jackson conducte the investigation which led to ti arrest of the men. 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