DEFENCE AGAINST THE ZEPPELINS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 29, 3 February 1916, Page 5

DEFENCE AGAINST THE ZEPPELINS.

HANGARS IN BELGIUM AND GERMANY MUST BE ROOTED OUT GUNPLANES INEFFECTIVE AGAINST APACHES OF THE AIR. (Times and Sydney Sun Services.) (Received 8.30 a.m.)' LONDON, February 2. The rails" ness refers with scorn to the air raid, and points out the lesson that fleets of thirty aeroplanes are needed to down the monstrous Zeppelins. The Paris "Journal" says that the defenders' work was hard because the night •was dark and the sky clouded. The "Journal," 'Tetit Journal," "Gaulois," and "Figaro" demand hundreds more aeroplanes for the campaign against the Apaches of the air. Experts point out that anti-Zeppelin aerial weapons are restricted to machine-guns and bombs, because the new gunplanes, owing to their weight, cannot rise to the altitude of the Zeppelins, while guns on land are useless when the Zeppelins are hidden behind mists. The rooting out of the Zeppelins' hangars in Germany is the only effective means of defence. The "Petit Pans.en graphically describes the clmse of the raiders, which used new incendiary bullets These fell round the pursuers like a stream of light. An aviator chased Saturday's raider for fifty minutes, and peppered it with bullets unti <a defect in the motor compelled it to land. The Zeppelin Hew at the rate of £ hundred kilometres per hour.