VALUE OF THE ZEPPELIN.
FRENCHMAN SCEPTICAL. GERMANY'S HEAVY LOSSES. . (Australian and N.Z. Table Association.) PARIS, August 28. M. Julliot, builder of the dirigibles, is sceptical of the value of super-Zeppelins, ns it is only when their fuel has largely been used up and their projectiles discharged that they can reach a height to outreach artillery. He estimates that out of 130 German Zeppelins, 30 have been destroyed and 25 lost in neutral countries, in the Baltic and in Germany. FLYING NORTHWARD. COPENHAGEN, August 28. Two Zeppelins passed Bergen, on the Norwegian coast, bound northward. Cruisers were escorting them. This is the first time Zeppelins hare been so far northTHE COUNT BELIEVES IN THEM. AMSTERDAM, August 28. Writing in the German newspaper "Tages Zeitung," Count Zeppelin beseeches the utmost use of submarines and airships, otherwise serious misfortune will befall the Germans.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 206, 29 August 1916, Page 6
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