IMPROVED ZEPPELINS.

Marlborough Express, Volume L, Issue 86, 11 April 1916, Page 2

IMPROVED ZEPPELINS.

LESS CONSPICUOUS AND MORE

SILENT

COUNT AND KAISER

. LOxNDON. April .8. The approximate invisibility of the latest. Zeppelins is the result of the Germans' experiments. The searchlights find increasing difficulty in picking theni up, and when they.are discovered they endeavor to elude the lights by rapid rising. Country correspondents of the Times agree that' the intest' Zeppelins show decreased noisiness, indi<fatmg'"th*fffc'- the persistent efforts to silence the engines are becoming more successful.

The 'Cologne oJozetle says that the series, of air raids on England is due to a conversation between the Kaiser and Count Zeppelin, who was recently summoned to headquariers. The Gazette regrets the lpss of Llo, Oiiu! adds: "England -,only saved the crew because she was afraid to repeat the shameful, act of the King Stephen,"

[Zeppelin LlO Mas discovered in a sinking condition in the North Sea in February last. The trawler King Stephen came up to the Zeppelin, and the airship- commander offered considerable sums if the trawler would, take hiiu and his crpw, off. Since there were over twenty on the. airship, some of whom were armed, the trawler's skipper, afraid of being overpowered, refused to take any risks and .steamed away, to the cries of "Gott strafe England."]