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In his story The War in the Air to TWILIGHT AND MOONLIGHT EXCURSIONS, 01890s described how Germay suddenly declared war against the United States, and the whole Garman fleet of eighteen COAL DEPARTMENT, battleships, with a futilla of fuel tenders and couverted liners containing stores to be used in support of the air-feet crossed the Streita of Dover on Whit-Monday, and steamed across the Atlantic for the purpose of destroying the American Atlantic
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Mr Wells describes the naval battle, as seen from the deck of the airship, which remained at a height of six or seven thousand fees in the air. When the time came for the airships to attack the Aussi can test, the Hagship of the nurjal navy slowly descended until she hovered figh over the American battleships, keeping paco with their full speed. Mr. Wells thinks that it is almost impossible for the
( battleships to do any damage to thei
azial assailants. One men was killed by a riller shot on the aerial-flagship, but that was all.
When the aimships attacked the ironclads they let loose a number of what bo calla "drachenflieger," that it to say, acumplanes !
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THE OWL GRILL ROOM HAS REMOVED Mr. Wells thus moralises over the passing | TO MORE COMMODIOUS PREMISES of the ironstat : –
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So it was that Bert Smallways saw the frut fight of the pir-ship and the last fight of those strangest things in the whole history of war: the ironclad inteleships, which began their career with the dusting batteries of the Emperor Napoleon,III. in
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