FAILURE OF ZEPPELINS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14284, 28 April 1917, Page 3

FAILURE OF ZEPPELINS.

AIRCRAFT .RISKS REDUCED.

„-; ..LONDON, February 13. An invention of a young Belfa*at boy seems to have .dealt very effectively with the Zeppelin* troub^^iter losing two Zeppelins, m each raid^ the German authorities,* although, they had no survivors from whom to gpt evidence, seem to have come te the' conclusion that England had evolved something" really deadly to their ;famq"us airships,,. In any case for the last - few; • months we have had neither raids ... nor. . rumors of raids. The public is breathing cjuite freely at nights now, and shows 'sighs of -what almost might be desoribed as carelessness m regard to' the lighting question, which was so jealously watched %,iew months ago. *(^d>i!i'tly:i,£lio'V:on ( ioial view m England} -regards the "Zeppelin danger as haring been successfully "counter-d.** TbI day the Government announces a reduction m the Government rate for insurance., against, .enemy .aircraft and bombardment risks te the extent of 50 per cent — that, is to say/- -the' ordinary householder will now pay only 1b per £100, instead of 2s, asheretofore. This is -tfta vfirst reduction since the scheme vras ,-inegotiated m July, 1915. The new rate cotnea, into force *on March 1,