ZEPPELIN AND HIS AIRSHIPS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2383, 12 February 1915, Page 6

ZEPPELIN AND HIS AIRSHIPS

VIEWS Olff THE RECENT RAID

London, February 10. ■ Ccrtmt Zeippelin. • interviewed by, an American airter tne return of the airships' from 'the East Coast raid, said that air wsir was bound to become a vital factor ' in strife between nations, and might lbecome as important as un-der-sea warfare. "Whether there will ever be great battles between air fleets only the distant future can tell," he said, "PeiisonaDy no. one regrets the killing of non-combatants more than myself, bnti have not they been killed by other, engines of warp Simply because England fears that the Zeppelins will destroy : her splendid isolation —she failed hersell to build something similar —she hopeij to arouse the world to bring pressure to bear against Germany's use of a weapon which is not available in England.

"The crows of Zeppelins were exposed to greater dangers than in other fights, but they, were just and humane, and a proof of their humane impulses was the fact that unexploded bombs have been flound in English towns visited.. ' When -Zeppelins are fired on, their safety: often-depends on their ability to ascend rapidly. It may'then be absolutely necessary to throw off bombs as ballast. La these circumstances the explosive ! caatacts were disconnected before the bpinbs were released. Doubtless this is what occurred over the English towns." ; . :

Ho claimed that unfortified towns occupied by troops were properly a target for alitack. Ho declined to say whether aiii aerial attack on London had been planned, or if the Zeppelins had failed his Expectations,' but stated that they wore far from perfection. They were only in the beginning of the science of aerial navigation.—"Times" and Sydney ''Sim". Services.