A GREAT PROJECT

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIII, Issue 10062, 29 August 1918, Page 5

A GREAT PROJECT

AERIAL PASSENGER SERVICE BETWEEN SPAIN AND UNITED " STATES. Australian ami N.Z. i Cab!.? Association. (Reeeiveji 'August 28, 7.25 p.m.) NEW YORK, August 27. Tlio Spanish Cabinet is considering the adoption of an aerial postal and passenger service between Spain and the United States. A large shipping company is prepared to finance the project,l which provides for the manufacture of airships, capable of carrying forty passengers and making the journey in two and a half days. Passengers will be charged four hundred dollars a trip. ADMIRALTY'S .-AIR OPERATIONS Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assn, and Eeuter. LONDON, August 27. TheJßritish Admiralty reports:.-. Be--19 th and 25th, aero-plau.e^xp.-p.pcrating with the Navy dropped twenty-seven- tons of bombs on docks and aerodromes in Belgium, Direct hits were made on a submarine shelter at Bruges, and two large explosions resulted. Big fires -were caused in the~'d6cks.~ Enemy shipping and laud “batteries were also attacked. We destroyed' 'five' maiohines and drove down five. Kout- British are missing.REPORT OF AIR MINISTRY. Aus. and N-Z. Cable Assn, and Reuter. (Received August 28, 11.20 p.m.) LONDON, August 28. The Air Ministry reports: An attack'on Mannheim on the night of.the. 25th-26tli was delivered at a height of 200 feet, the pilots just avoiding the chimneys and the intense barrage * over the housetop's;'Our bombs caused the heaviest explosions.' ' Every , bomb burst on its target, and that considerable damage was done is certain. AH our machines returned. THE GERMSN J5-INGH GUN MUZZLE CRACKED FROM END TO END. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. LONDON, August 27. Mr Gordon Gilmour writes; The fif-teen-inch gun which is among the Australians’ spoils' is a costly ■ weapon, in an immense steel emplacement on ' a top of concrete, and with its own electric power plant fin the vicinity. But the barrel of the gun is cracked from end to end, apparently by a premature burst, and it has hot been used for some time. ... , . . - . ITALIAN G&MP&IGN •.BRITISH OVERCOME A GARRISON. Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assn, and Eeuter. LONDON, August 27. • An Italian official report states; -The British west of Asiago raided the enemy’s positions, overcame the garrison, and took 270 prisoners. OPERATIONS .IN ‘ALBANIA.’ Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assn, and Eeuter. , LONDON, August 27. An Austriadr official report states: In Albania we recaptured Fieres and Herat. . Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assn, and Eeuter. (Received August 28, '11.20 p.m.) LONDON,' August 28. A French Eastern communique states s’" In’ Albania our troops were not molested as they effected a slight withdrawal. Contact with the Italians is being maintained. GERMANY AND NEUTRAL SHIPS Spain’s" demands acceded to. COMPENSATION OFFERED TO NORWAY. Australian and, N.Z. Cable Association MADRID, August 27. Germany lias accepted -the Spanish demands, and states that she is willing to provide German tonnage in Spanish ports to replace the sunken tonnage. ''‘CHRISTIANIA, August 27. Replying to the .Norwegian Government’s protest, Germany offers compensation’where ver it is proved that a Norwegian ship has been torpedoed without warning outside the danger Bone. Norwegian newspapers point out that Germany is bound to give compensation in any-case, but money cannot compensate for the seamen’s lives and the ships. • -Norway must demand German shipd and compensation for the families of the dead seamen. .- LO SIT A NIA—TRA 0 COMMANDER OP THE SUBMARINE CAPTURED. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. ■ PARIS, August 27. “Le Journal” reports that Lieutenant Schwieger, who was in command of the submarine which torpedoed the Lusitania, has been captured in the Mediterranean. ENEMY WHAT LIVERPOOL COTTON ASSOCIATION PROPOSES.^ LONDON, August 27. The Liverpool' Cotton Association has adopted a by-law boycotting the ’ enemy fo"f'ten years after -the war. ■ ALIENITN~~BiUTAIN THE GOVERNMENT'S SCHEME. Australian and N.Z. ’ Cable Association LONDON, August 27. The' Heine Office officials have subdivided uunaturalised Germans into eight categories. It is stated that it is not proposed to intern anyone over fifty-five unless his record is bad. The remainder above that age are liable to bo repatriated. Actually only a small proportion' are of interuablo age, and drastic internment is ’ improbable. The alleged thousands 5f uhiuterned enemies dq‘ not exist. "