DIRIGIBLE HELPS IN LOAN DRIVE

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 311, 20 September 1918, Page 9

DIRIGIBLE HELPS IN LOAN DRIVE

Residents of nortli-oastevn Ohio, along the route from Akron to Cleveland, -were treated recently to some ol tlio"thrills that inhabitants of London, Pnris, , and' other cities in the- war zone subjects to raids, have been experiencing for more than three years. . . ' '~ The occanion was the flight "of. ono'of tho. Goodyear Tyre Company's dirigibles, from that company's balloon field, near Akron, to Cleveland, giving .a/realistic impression of the possibilities of invasion by Aerial routos, in oaso of enemy attack. The big;' airship, gnicelly manoeuvred .over tho city at a 'height of about 500 feet, and dropped aerlnl bombs on tho city. Tile bombs, howevor, .differed from those used in European raids, in that they oontuiued nothing more dangerous that Liberty Loan literature, reminding the vast populace below that only tliroiiKh liberal support of tho third Liberty Loan, thereby providing tho means for vigorously prosecuting tho vrar, could they hope to kco.p their shores free'from enemy Zeppelins. In accord with arrangements made preTiniusly, tho appearance of the bis diriBible was announced by signals similar to thoso used in ]-',u;.kind and French cities. Rapid lire suns installed on the public square sounded the first alarm, followed by the continuous shriokinp of stoam ■whistles. The only feature omitted was that of tho clanging bells of motor tiro apparatus, acioriipainynis tho repeated cries of "Take cover." The aimhlp, after performing its mission of furuifhinK visible ovider.ee of ■what the Government is.doiiiK in Uie way of providing adequate aerial scouting enuipnisnt, veered olf to tho south, and in another lio'urwiß resting safely back in it's ■ hangar.- Tho cutiro trip lusted, about thre-o hours.