AERIAL WARFARE.

Timaru Herald, Volume CII, Issue 15633, 16 April 1915, Page 8

AERIAL WARFARE.

BOMBS AT XAXCY. FACTORY HUBXED. : PARIS. A;iril 14. j .V Zeppelin dropped bom's at Xanoy i but no fatalities wore caused. Incendiary bombs- started serial j tiros, and a paint- and varnish factory I w;;: destroyed, j i FORCED TO descend. ! LOXDON\ April M. ! On Tuesday a zeppelin bombed Bail- j lotto and killed throe civilians. 1 ivo German aeroohinos, were forcod J to descend ;lt Luneville. and the avia- ' tor-, wore made prisoners. A third machine was winged at Ornes. ZEPPELIN BROUGHT DOWN. AMSTERDAM, April 1L A Zeppelin, wliieh was damaged bv gunfire near Ypres. landed in Belgium in a battered condition. ZEPPELINS D!>A PPCfIXTJXG. LONDON RAID PROJECTED. BERNE, Anvil Ft. 11 err Zeppelin's- secretary on interviewed said that Germany possesses thirty-six dirigibles. She has lost ~;„» during the war, this loss far exceeding anticipations, but new typos had heen constructed with long-range guns, and machine guns. Fifteen would bo de'.ivi-red in July. They would be armoured, and would earrv twe tons of explosives and be capable of attaining a high, altitude. Ten dirigibles would attack London about August regardless of losses. Germany has discovered a new process causing atmospheric perturbations which Mould bring down aeroplanes. }