AERIAL WARFARE.
ACCURATE BOMB-DROPPING. Br Teleeraph-Press Association-Copyright Paris, August 18. Piloted by M. Gaubcrt, Lieutenant Escott won. a .£2OOO prize at Mourmelon, dropping from an aeroplane twelve out of fifteon bombs irithin a sixty-fivo feet circle from a height of 650 ft. 'AN ILLUMINATING SHELL. Copenhagen, August 18. Joergonsen, a Danish artillerist, has invented and tested an apparatus for throwing a shell to a height of a thousand feet. The bursting shell will oast a brilliant light over the countryside for a space of two minutes, and thus enable the discovery of a night attack.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1523, 20 August 1912, Page 7
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95AERIAL WARFARE. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1523, 20 August 1912, Page 7
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