WAR IN THE AIR.

North Otago Times, Volume CV, Issue 13935, 18 July 1917, Page 6

WAR IN THE AIR.

WAR WILL BE WON PROM THE SKY. BEIiXA.II) SHAW'S THEORY. (Australian ami N.Z. Cubic Association) NEW YORK, July IG, ' Tin 1 London representative of The' Now York Tribune interviewed Mr Bernard Shaw, who advocated the -bombardment of Gei'man towns by aeroplanes, This, not as- a lfprisal, but merely in the 'way of military operations, The war would be won from the sky, lie said, not in the trenches, Now that experimental attacks have been made on Loudon, we had better look' after masks and helmets. Mr Shaw is working on a scheme to protect children's playgrounds from air' attacks, ZEEBRUGGE AGAIN BOMBED. RAILWAYS AND AMMUNITIO DUMPS ATTACKED. (Australian and N.Z, Cable Association) Received July 17, 9.25 p.m. Aifmlralty naval aeroplanes last night dropped several tons of bombs on the Solwiiy works at Zeebruggc, on railway junctions and sidings at Ostend, on sidings and (lumps at Middlekirlce, on the railway junction at Thourout, and on motor transport and convoys and. railway sidings at Liclitcrvelde, All the aeroplanes returned. CONSTRUCTION OF ZEPPELINS STOPPED. GERMANS CONSTRUCTING NEW TYPES OF AEROPLANES. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association) Received July 17, (5.50 p.m. ' LAUSANNE, July IG. The construction of Zeppelins at Friedrichshaven has s'opped. Thousands of workmen have been diverted to the construction of aeroplanes, with new types of which the Germans are constantly experimenting on Lake Constance.