AERIAL WARFARE
SOME WEIRD EXPERIENCES
ZEPPELINS IN RESERVE
\ London, August 17. It is difficult to determine the value of the aeroplane for water operations. Belgium j airmen succeed in spoiling tho scouting of the Uhlans, but guns havo. brought many to the ground. The airmen liayo had weird and uncanny experiences.'- .Air waves liavi> created a concussion which rocked tho aircrafty like cockleshells, causing them 1.0 dive, rush upwards, stop, shiver, and othor nfrve-fackiiiir acrobatics. The fact that the Zeppelin airships j>ln.ved liitlo part in tli« 'operations against Tjie«e lesuls to the surmise that the. main fleet is lioine; withheld for future and more critical operations. Tho njrshipe urn now coloured B»'«yi i-rcndoriuu them let* vUiblo.
BOMBS DROPPED INTO LOUVAIN. Brussels, August 17. Last night a German aeroplaiio dropped bombs into Louvain. A SMART.RECOVERY. . Brussels, August 17. Two Belgian aviators, owing to a breakdown, wero compelled to land near a body of Uhlans. They abandoned tho aeroplano, but later Borne Bolgians, with a quick-firer mounted on a motor-car, surprised and drove off tho Uhlans, and rescued the aeroplanes.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2232, 19 August 1914, Page 5
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178AERIAL WARFARE Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2232, 19 August 1914, Page 5
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