NOCTURNAL VISITORS.
AIRSHIP OVER PORTSMOUTH
OITE SEEN AT HORTTSEA. DISQUIETING ALLEGATIONS. (By Cah':. -Tress Association.— Copyright) (Received 10.20 a.m.) LONDON', February 23 Members of the police force and other p.op.i- ac lortsmouth report that last night an airship, with a powerful searchifTht. hovered high above the Marine Barracks, and then returned northwards, iliry say that they could not distin-gui.-h the body of the craft owing to the darkness.
A coastguard has notified the Admiralty that in tnr night a mysterious airship passed Ilnrnsoa. & Yorkshire town near the sea. It; miles north-east of Hull. A member of the Royal Flying Corps points out that Great Britain has neither an aeroplane nor a dirigible capable of coping with a German Zeppelin airship. The critic says that the armament for repo'ling aircraft only consists of a few quic*-lirers, and no one is yet trained in the handling of the weapons. He further says that the guns are not yet provided with suitable shells. PARIS, February 25. Seven airships, with a capacity of 20.000 cubic metres, to attain a speed of 40 miles an hour, have been ordered fof" the French army.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 49, 26 February 1913, Page 5
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