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NOW DREAMERS WOULD BEAT TNE GERMANS British Amateur Inventors Propose Many Visionary - Schemes,.. MOUNT CANNON ON CLOUDS Another 'roposps to i'etrify German Soldiers by Squirting Cement Over Them London, July 20.-Correspondence of the Associated 'ress)-If the dreams of numerous British amateur inventors who have been besieging the ministiy of munitions could be real 'zed, the war- would have been over long since and little would be left of the German army. Recent proposals include the following. Freeze the clouds and mount artil lery thereon. Train cormorants to fly to Essen to pick the mortar front Krupp's walls so that they \vill crumble. Trail from balloons monster mag nets that would snatch rifles from the hands of the German soldiers. Perch men on shells to steer them. A suggestion often submitted is to attach a searchlight to an anti-air craft gun, project the light on a gotha, and shoot along the beam. Un fortunately shells will not' follow a path of light. Other schemes for dealing with hos tile aircraft are to suspend heavy guns from captive balloons; to arm defense airplanes with scythes; to provide heat rays for setting Zeppe tins on fire, and to cover the moon with a big black balloon. To prevent polished rails shining at night and acting as a guide to enemy aircraft, the last coach of the last train is to drop blacking on them. A shell containing gravel is to lay a pathway ove r mud, and another, containing an irritant powder or a sticky substance is to hamper machine guns. The "relay shell" is a favorite pro posal, the plan being for a shel at the height of its flight to expel a smaller inner shell. As a shell does not point directly along its trajectory, it would be impossible to secure ac curacy of aim for the second shell. AK R1 A Car of MULESan you have ever laid yo and are now in our S you see this lot. Th We alto have in s Buggies, and H to be had for the Moi service assures you goods we handle. I. M.lra The Bes Reasonab Nothing but the i into our prescriptionm pounded just the way RUBBER GOG] TOIL and a full and c STATI( We A MODERN SC We keep a SCIGARS, TOBAC( BROWN'S 0 I Below Bank of Manning. Among the more miscellaneous pro jects are: To petrify German soldiers by squirting cement over them. To throw snakes by pneumatic pro pulsion into the enemy trenches. To penetrate and attack Germany itself via a "tube" buil, "all the way" from England. It is said that about one sugges tion in ten that reach the ministry of nmunitions is novel and possible. The air ministry anounces that its air inventions committee, formed about nine moths ago, has examined more than 5,000 inventions and sug gestions. -W-S-S SEES THRILIANG AIR BATTLE Witht he Americans on the Vesle, Aug. 18.-The troops on this front near Fismes saw a spectacular air battle among the clouds this morning while waiting for the cooks to dish up their "chow." The fight began t.t i o'clock, when a American planes, flying down to the line on a patrol, were attacked 'by eight Germans just south of our lines. The sky at this time was filled with peculiar cloud formations. Small patches of the White flcce were nierced now and then by the sun. From behind several of these patches the Germans appeared, three of them attacking simultdneously our patrol leader, who immediately slid; off more than a thousand feet, getting out ot danger, and then climbing upward, at tacked the enemy. Meanwhile, the f.,:ant was continu ing between other Americans and Ger mans, who were racing in and out behind the tiny clouds in a wild game of hide and esek. The rattle of the machine guns was comting faintly to our ears, nearly a mile below. Three Germans finally cornered one of ours and began driving him down, when he suddenly turned upward through the center of the &attackers, riding straight through a cloud, and present ly rejoined his comrades. 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We learned later that both were Americans. The other Americans withdrew and our anti-aircraft; bat teries turned a heavy fire on the Ger mans. A report came later from the front line that one German was hit and auparently brought down out of control near Fismes. -W-s-s CASUALTIES OVERSEAS Total of the Week Ending Aug. 18th, 1,355 W:ishinmton, Aug. 18.--Casualties in the United States overseas forces I announced by the war office and Navy Department during the week ending :oday, numbered 1,355 compared with 1,916 for the previous week. Total asualties announced to date number 31,467, including 376 in today's army ist. The total army casualties num er 18,707, the marine corps list 2,760. W Total deaths including killed in ac ion, deaths from wounds, disease, ac cident and other causes since the United States forces landed in France lumber 8,133 including 291 soldiers lost at sea. Of that number 7,2961 were of the army and 837 of the mn mine corps. 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