A ZEPPELIN A WEEK

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2695, 15 February 1916, Page 5

A ZEPPELIN A WEEK

GERMAN CLAIM FOR THEIR FACTORY OUTPUT NEW DEVICES FOR GREATER INVISIBILITY i !y Tcl<-2rO'Psi— Press Association—Copj-rlpSt . Berne, February 13.. The newspaper "Dor Bund' 1 state.? •. hat the Germans claim that they can inish a - Zeppelin in each- week, the ests being made on Lake Constance. Sometimes two new airships are cruisng together. Airship motors from tho pxat Maybach motor factory are tost-' si for forty-eight hours uninterruptedly in the gondolas. The Zeppelins are low covered with armour) and carry machine-guns and quickfirers, and a' special devioo for throwing' aerial, torpedoes. The latest invention is for the. creation of artificial clouds around the Zeppelins while flying by releasing great volumes of fumes, making the Zeppelin' - almost invisible from the. ground. The speed and manoeuvring power of the Zeppelins have been, greatly improved recently. ANOTHER BUTCHERING RAID ITALIAN TOWNS BOMBED Rome, February IS. Official. —Enemy aeroplanes raided Codigoro and Ravenna, in Italy. Fifteen civilians were killed, including several women :and children. Many persons were'injured. The bombs hit a, hospital and church at Ravenna. (Rec. February 14, 11.35 p.m.) During the air raid the ancient-Basi-lica of Santo A»polii«are Nuovo, at Ravenna, was paTtly demolished:' AIR REPRISALS DENOUNCED "BLACK TRAGEDY OF MURDERING INNOCENTS." London, February 13Baron Buckmaster, the Lord Chancellor, in a speech at Keigliley, _ denounced tho suggestion that Britain should commit the, black tragedy of murdering innocent' Germans by reprisals for the air raids. (Rec. February 14, 10.50 p.m.) ' London, February 14. The "Daily Mail" rejoices that Baron Buckmaster objects to reprisals oil women and children, and contends that ■ vigorous reprisals are needed against men, munition factories, and ' aerodromes. "We have sufficient .aeroplanes in-'England to prevent Zeppelins approaching,-but they are in tho wrong places. There is no evidence of a fighting brain directing their movements. ' The ■. Zeppelins would not worry'us-if our aeroplanes persistently ;• worried them in -their own nests, or : when-voyaging to England."