DEFENCES OF ZEEBRUGGE.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14651, 4 March 1918, Page 5

DEFENCES OF ZEEBRUGGE.

GERMANS PLANNING NEW

SCHEMES

(Reuters Telegrams.)

(Received March 3, 5.5 p.m.)

Amsterdam, March 2

corres'

The "Telegraaf's" frontier pondent states that the Germans are continuously thinking out new methods for tfce defence of Zeebrugge from the sea and air.

They send up nightly unmanned captive balloons fastened to electrified steel wire, forming a great danger to airmen coming in contact with it. New German, aeroplanes are fitted with, three screws, one being1 so arranged that it keeps the machine stationary for some time, permitting of more accurate bombing. Marine nets are spread far to seaward. Smaller submarines are now being built.