WAR IN THE AIR.
ZEPPELINS WITHDRAWN FROM BELCIUM. EXPERIMENTS IN A SAFER PLACE PARIS, August 4. Since Flight Sub-Lieutenant Warneford's feat, all Zeppelins have been withdrawn' from Belgium, and cxperi- | men Is are being carried out to secure : higher flight and greater speed. As a i result, extra motors have been added to the Zeppelins, increasing their speed 25 per cent. Apparatus has been in-st.-i Hod for distributing Hertzian waves
enabling the operators to control the direction of aerial torpedoes at a distance of two miles. The number-:Vof machine guns mounted on . top., of, the dirigibles hrjs been angineiitoH. Th© iexperiments failed: to a<id,'Armour to the top, so the number of interior compartments has been increased in p?de¥. that each breach may cause less loss. It is. expected that Zeppelin raids wilj recommence when the present rain and thunderstorms end.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXV, Issue 8209, 5 August 1915, Page 5
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