Identifier: independen89v90newy (find matches)
Title: The Independent
Year: 1849 (1840s)
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Publisher: New York : S.W. Benedict
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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. It watched, circling about, calling its friends the water craft, till they came up and finished the job. Enough has been written to make clear—if any one longer doubts—the military uses of the aeroplane. It is no exaggeration to say that just as a man without a club has little chance witha man who has a club—about as little chance as a man with bow and arrow has against a man with a revolver—soit has become convincingly clear to those in close touch with the military situation abroad that an army without aeroplanes is, in no small degree, at the mercy of an army equipped with them.France has thousands of aeroplanes.England has more. We in America have hardly any. Yet, considering ourinfinite coast and border line, we should have most of all. But the point isnt what we should have—the point is what we must haveto keep the Germans from winning the war! And three thousand machines arenot enough! Not nearly enough.(Continued on page 511.) l^he Indep<3ndent~Harp<3rS Hfeekty NEWS-PICTORIAL
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luderxcood <t Underwood The greatest newspaper magnate in Great Britain, Lord Northcliffe, who is to head a permanent British commission here The Independent NEWS PICTORIAL Harpers Weekly

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