The Sequel / What the Great War will mean to Australia

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e Nations blooded it; and its wonderful utility in speeding the end of the war

the heavier than air machine, the aeroplane. This is how the Powers stood in aerial furnishing when the f

and Belgium had 33 airsh

es. A non-dependable factor in war is worse than useless. A mistake may be made in tactics, but when ascertained may be retrieved and, perh

non-rigid type, which was a type "without a backbone" and was as uncertain,

t a feature for observation purposes, so that when Zeppelin brought out his

replenish its gas, a Zeppelin had always to return to its base for supplies. But the gas balloon suited the smug character of the German. Unlike the aviator who threw himself into the air on a bundle of steel rods and rubber, a propeller and a petrol engine, the phl

fun. He had a pipe in his mouth. He was told to go away. He wouldn't for a while, but he so

an enemy; and it was only a few months before the war that considerable enthusiasm ruled Germany because a Zeppelin had made a recor

y to fight. Just rise up o

ed it at

of terror-a bomb dropped to fall upon the royal palace, missed and injured two women; a bomb aimed for the Antwerp Bank missed

s recorded that the city watchman of Antwe

r guns and put up a fight. The German in the air takes few risks. It is his temperament. Not so with the Frenchman. He is by nature dashing and volatile. The easy-going of the dirigible little a

ed as a cog. He is part of a system-out of that he must not move. It has wrecked his initiative,

of his officers, who lacked initiative, "they have

y move like machines, either destroying or rolling on to destruction, and

de man to his own image, but the German rec

he German machine. The Allies were di

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