AVIATION.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIX, Issue 10891, 4 March 1914, Page 5

AVIATION.

A NEW TYPE

“Times and Sydney Sun Services.” United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. Beilin, March 8.

A Lanz airship provided with a platform for guns and bomb throwing apparatus, made a satisfactory trial.

BRITISH ACTIVITY

SUPERIORITY IN SEAPLANES,

London, March 3

Mr Churchill announced that the Government were ordering a large rigid airship of the Zeppelin type from Yichers; one of the Astratorrea type from Prance; and three semirigid from Armstrongs. Mr Ohniohlli said the ultlmati development of a naval aerial service would be productive of considerable reductions in other classes of naval weapons. Although the airship programme was modest compared with French and German achievements, we had a great and growing superiority in seaplane service.