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Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 2856, 29 January 1916, Page 2

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HAPPENINGS THREATENED. IN THE AIR AND AT SEA. ASSURANCES FROM BRITAIN. New York, January 28. Mr McMillan, the President of the merican Aeronautic Club, says that ho has ascertained from a satisfactory source that air-torpedos bad been successfully tried in Germany, under practical conditions, and that an airraid could be looked for in two or three weeks. Upon the result of the venturo would depend a dash of the lleet from Kiel.

London, January 28. ■ The President of the American Aer- j onautic Club, in au interview, stated; that Krupps wero perfecting a pneu- j malic tube capable of launching an. J 8-inch torpedo from au airship, which , will strike with an impact ef It tons, j This torpedo would be able to oyer- ; come aerial cross-currents at a height ! of 15,000 feet.* He predicts that the. i German fleet will soon come out and \ give battle to the British Navy with . new 17-inch guns. This statement is j based ou predications from informa- j tion received. Wellington. January 29. The High Commissioner reports! from 'London : Replying to a deputa- j tion of members of Parliament for ■ London seats to-day, 'Earl Kitchener j (Secretary for War) and the Hon. A. j J. Balfour (for the Navy) stated that j great developments in air-raid defence j methods for J/ondon had been effect- ; ed since September. This progress. ; was not confined to an increase in i and the organisation of anti-aircraft' artillery, but would be found also in | improved arrangements for aeroplane j defence. For the purpose of unity ' and control, the Admiralty's respou- i sibilitv was now in process of trans- i fcrencc to the War Office.