FAITH IN ZEPPELINS SHAKEN

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2492, 19 June 1915, Page 5

FAITH IN ZEPPELINS SHAKEN

RESULT OF WARNEFORD'S FEAT. Parjs, "June 17. A message Teceived via Switzerland says that Count Zeppelin's technical assistants at Fredrichshafen are greatly perturbed at the result of Lieutenant Warneford's success in Belgium. . Count Zeppelin has always represented that the danger of attack by aeroplane IJ a negligible factor. His expert advisers n6w say that it is either necesr Bary to increase the buoyancy of the Zeppelins by carrying fewer men Mid bombs, or thero will hare to a radical change in their design. [Lieutenant Warneford attacked and destroyed in nud-air a Zeppelin which was endeavowing to make for its hangar.] BELCIAN COAST TOWNS RAIDED. ALLIES' AIRMEN CAUSE GREAT DAMAGE. (Rec. Juno 18, 5.5 p.m.) 1 Amsterdam, June 17. The Allies' aeroplanes last night bombed the German positions at Zeebrugge, Heyst, and Knocko, and : did serious damage. The aviators cscaped. Paris, June 17. There was great satisfaction in France over the recent bombardment of Karlsruhe. It is as a tardy but fitting reply to countless German attacks on unfortified towns. SUPER-AEROPLANES FOR BRITAIN. (Rec. June 18, 6.20 p.m.) London. June 17. Mr. Joynson Hicks, M.P., is urging the need of increasing the supply of aircraft in Britain. We could turn out, he says, aeroplanes of 100 h.p., carrying sixteen men, similar to tnose "used in Franco, and capable of carrying destructive bombs, m three montlis.— "Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services.

THE MID ON KARLSRUHE WORSE THAN THE GERMANS .BELIEVED (Rec. Juno 18, 8.5 p.m.) Amsterdam, Juno IS. A. correspondent of the "Kolniseho Zeitung," who was an eye-witness of the raid on Karlsruhe, narrates that the raid was worse than the Germans believed. "A single airman," he writes, - "appeared at 6,30 a.m., but attracted no attention. Soon afterwards, buzzing was heard on all sides.. More aeroplanes appeared at high speed, and a crowd gathered, assuming that the machines were German. "Then motor horns and steam syrens hooted out their, danger signals, and the anti-aircraft guns opened fiio. The aeroplanes spared no part of the city. Nerve-shattering crashcs followed each, other quickly, and the inhabitants, in a blind panic, fled to housas and cellars; leaving dead and wounded where they had fallen. "Some of the greatest havoc was done near the Rondell-Platz and Karl Friedricli Strasss (near the, centre of the city), where seven people wore killed. "The airmen disappeared at eight o'clock, and tlio inhabitants . slowly ventured out and gathered round tlio spots wbero tho people wero killed." * (Rcc. June IS, 11.45 p.m.) Amsterdam, June 18. ' The "Lokal Anziegcr" states that eleven men, soven boys, women, and girls, and four schoolboys wero killed at Karlsruhe, while soyenty-threo people were wounded.