WAR IN THE AIR

North Otago Times, Volume CIV, Issue 13656, 26 August 1916, Page 6

WAR IN THE AIR

ANOTHER AIR RAID, ArKSHH'3BOiiBEABTI. , OAfc!T. .- NO (.'AeUAI/riJiS REPORTED. The' High Commissioner reports:— LONDON, August 24.. Hostile Hirslups lioiiiljed the. .Bast l'oiist;'jiist before midnight. No munities my reported. ; BRUTAL GERMANS. BELGIANS IN DANGER 1 ZONE. (Australian and -V.Z. Cablc.Amoclation.)' ' ' f'ARLS, August 24. The Journal ilds-Debars state* thatthe Germans have decided to place »rO- - 'Hfiansiii the Zeppelin hangars as a. protection against Allied air rai'ds. APPEARANCE OF SUPERZEPPELINS. .SPYING OX THE NORTH SEA. (Australian nnd N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON, August 24. Hon; E, S. Montagu (Minister of' AliinitioiisV, in a speech at Hmv-St. Ediminds. said that three or four new 7.SU feet super-Zeppelins would be readv in October. One had already inan<rvrod over the North Sea. SEVERAL AIRSHIPS PARTICIPATE MIDNIGHT RAID. The High Couiinissioiier reports:— LONDON, August 2;1(|.41J a.m.) , The War Office reports: Several airships crossed, ihe east and soi.itli-east /ousts', shortly before Thursday at midnight. Bombs were dropped." So far no report of i-astialties or damage' has been received.i BRITAIN'S CONQUEST OF THE AIR, REMARKABLE IAFPfiOYBMENTS. r'.WEST THING |N THE WORLD. (Aiutr.»li»n and N l ./,, Cable Association.) Received August 20, li,:io p.m. LONDON, August 24. Mr Charles Grey, editor of The Aeroplane, writing to The Evening Standard snys: The nen- type of Ihe small British lighting niiirhine, wbioh has already de-stroyed-twenty-seven • Fokkers, is'- the thing in the world, except a jinn pnijiTtile. The mai-liiiie ran onl-«-1 iinV. Hii-shi|is There lias been sin-h an iiii|ii-uviMiii'iii in Mi-itish aeroplanes lale- '»' that it -will spot) lie impossible for Zeppelins to gel away, if, indeed, thev ;<re ever itlib; tu reucli 'England,