Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 111, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 May 1911 — Fighting the Flying Machine. [ARTICLE]

Fighting the Flying Machine.

A prominent Chicago expert when asked hypothetical questions by lawyers in court often answered, “There are no limitations to the possible.” This was always a poser and seemed to suit judge and jury. So it seems barely possible there may be a grain of truth in the report of a new patent. by the Krupps, an invention which promises easy destruction of war balloons and military aeroplanes. It Is maintained that some form of gun or cannon fires a peculiar- projectile' which explodes immediately it touches even the softest silk gas bag of a balloon or the lightest canvas covering of a flying machine. Honestly, ' this sounds much like dreams of pro-; jective science.—New York Press.