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Wednesday afternoon, august 19. 1925 DETAILS NEXT WAR BAFFLES MILITARY MEN Fundamentalists Believe Next Conflict Will Be the Same Old Thing AIRCRAFT WILL PLAY LEAD PART, SAY FLIERS Chemical School of Opinion Poi- I son Gas Will Decide Next War WASHINGTON, August 19 What the next war will be like no body knows. Military men say they do—doubt less think so But they disagree. Different schools of experts pre dict half a dozen or more entilely different kinds of fighting. Their predictions conflict, too. There’s no way of adding them up,* dividing by the total number of predicitons and striking an aver age. According to military funda- j mentalists the next war' will be | about the same old thing'. Armies, ' with infantry as backbones, will I fight on land. Navies with battle- i ships as their backbones will fight | at sea. Aircraft will figure more i than ever before but only as army 1 and navy auxiliaries, after all. Warfare’s principles haven’t chang ed a bit. According to the aviation school the next war will be fought in hte ! air. Aircraft wil wipe out armies and navies in jig time. The coun try with the strongest flying force will have the enemy at its mercy be fore he realizes a sight’s started. His surface defenses and defend ers destroyers, his cities will be bombed, his countryside harried and he’ll have a yield without hav ing had a chnace to strike a blow. According to the chemical school, gas will decide the next war. It may be outlawed but it will be used. Whole armies wil be gassed in their trenches. Crews will be gass ed on ships at sea. The populations of entire cities will perish similar ly. Airplanes will be convenient for raining down death thus but their ammunition will be chemical. According to the tank school, huge amphibious super-tanks will win the next war. They’ll dwarf the World War tanks as a battle ship dwarfs a destroyer. i'hey’ll be irresitible and invulnerable. According to one scientific little group some entirely new weapon may settle the next war—some kind of “death ray”—some applica tion of nature’s forces—electricity —and adaptation of wireless princi ples, possibly. The idea’s rather yague but there have been reports of experi ments in this direction, not very well authenticated but so persistent as to have set the scientific set a-thinking. According to the orthodox, fun damentalists school, airplanes are the surface land and sea forces’ eyes—indispensible to see with but otherwise of little use in a fight. Gas can’t be used in any such quan tities as the chemists say. Tanks are serviceable, but only adjuncts. As for “death rays” —pooh, pooh! According to all the rest of the schools, each of the other schools is over-enthusiastic, with the excep tion of the orthodox school, which is out-of-date. These aren't all the schools only some of the principle ones. With so much disagreement among them, what’s a nation, dependent on their advice, to do? Build up an all-’round military establishment, to suit the whole out fit? That’s a large order. A navy, for instance, is expen sive. If it’s to be destroyed, first shot out of the bottle, by aircraft, it would be better to scrap it and concentrate on aircraft. Yet suppose the country does that, and then the aviation school turns out to be mistaken. That would be had business, too. Well, it’s up to the experts to fight it out the best they can. PROBE LEGION LEADER’S DEATH Lifeless Bcdv of Ccnunander of Branchville, S. C.. Found Hanging From Ceiling BRANCHVILLE, S. C„ Aug. 19. —State, county, and city officers last night were endeavoring to clear up the mystery of the death of E. J. Thomas, commander of the Branch ville post of the American Legion, whose lifeless’’body was found Mon day night hanging from the ceiling of his room. Although the theory of suicide has not been abandoned entirely by officials, the inquest was ordered postponed pending a complete in vestigation. State detectives have been requested to aid local authori ties working on the case. Thomas’ body, stripped of all clothing, was found early last night by friends who went to his home when he failed to anpear in town during the day. The body wa« hanging at the end of a stout cord which was attached to the ceiling. Thomas had been dead annroximate- Jy 20 hours, physicians said. BOOTS AND HER BUDDIES The Last Lap By Martin , gg T -ik?" 0 it"!!' W-rU , TJX. THIS BOTH GOIN'THtRK ! PoFFECU't' ■-/ GOW PUNCTURE. - 'MP OuGHTTA HMJE A "V MEMBER NOW- J x ' ? ■.< WO- VJHYP LYTTLE-RACE z—\ ' BETCHA A / C’ EE . LEMME THINK - r X ‘ , _Jz r \Soda \ WONT BE —. ( . ft u7 ' SoReTUA 7 U’ .7 EE T B HIND YOU '( / A \ —r Suits ME . GET , <• -A, ( ■IjW 'W & 2 -b"'■'<%. ■ SALESMAN SAM Sam Boosts the Wrong Store By Swan 1 1 hi. ) HEAH! 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