THE OVERHEAD FOE

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2171, 9 June 1914, Page 5

THE OVERHEAD FOE

PRACTICALLY TMMUXK FROM ATTACK. Br "Vle-irra tiH /. y? o ? a t-' cu-onvriirhi find Bytlnef "'Sajl" Srr7!c«!. tomlon, June 1. War Offico inquiries suggest that no gun yot ( dovised is capable. from briow of Warding off an ceroplano attack itt three thousMiil feet. Acrofilitiies are safo f-l-'om rillo firo .at a height ci four thousand feet and frofti gtm firo au "armoured aeroplane is pracii-caliy at a height of fifteen hmidred feet. The authorities flro inclined to believe that unless aeroplanes fiy t.o» Joiv there is lit.-t.te danger -of daninge fr6tni ■ tho ground.

RECORD SEAPLANE ASCENT, M. OUILtAUX AT SYDNEY, Sydney, Jtme B. M. Guillanx, the aviator, estnblished a peapiaue rccoid by iisceiidfag to a. height l of 10,000 fefit. Ha we-ut- as high it was possible to breathe withoui; the use of a,i:i Osygeu iahaler. BALLOONING I-'ATALITY. , , .. -. Psris, Juno 7. A balloon exploded at Blieim.s, when a.t a height of 4-000 feet. Three p-c.rsons Wer-B killed, jnchiditig tho tt'cll-knowfi aeronaut, M. Le Prince. (Bee. Juno 8, 1t1,20 p.m.) Paris, Juno- 8. . Tho disaster occurred duiing a feto m the iihttima district. Bits wind drove tho baltoan oft to tlys trees Slid tho escapiiig gas ignited with a ietfifh osplosion, Lo .i'rincu being incinerated. Forty poisons wore injured. . SYDNEY AIRMAN' LOOP'S TIIB LOOP. '' Paris, Juno 7, M,r. Oswald Watt, of S-ydr.or, hag loopiKl the tr-i:plo loop, at Bee, nsi'ur» tho maehmo m which M. Pegoud first, looped tho loop.