79 ZEPPELINS LOST

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 295, 7 September 1920, Page 4

79 ZEPPELINS LOST

GERMAN AIR SECRETS. Many secrets of Urn German air force* are revealed in "Die Don schen LuftEtreitkrafte im Weltkmgc' (just publishcd by Mittler, Berlin), m which contributions from 29 German air officers are edited by Major G. P. Neumann, who served as a captain in the German <ur scivice. , ~ _, The official statistics ot the Gcrmah air casualties are given lor the first time In the armv 1902 officers and man K-cro' killed nt homo and 1878 at tlio front Tho wounded numbered 222< at home and 5123 at .the front. By way of comparison, the casualties in tho British Hoval Air Force, after it became a separate establishment, numbered only -(W killed and *JSSS wounded. The losses of Zeppelins were very heavv. The navv had in all 73. Of thess "3 were destroyed by tho Biitish. and tn<t French, and 30 by accident. No fewer than four were i)urn<d by hyiiturns.,At the end of the war I' 2 were unserviceable, so that very few remained emcicnt. The armv had 50 Airships, of which 37 were Zeppelins. Seventeen of these were destroved by hostile action and nine by accident; five were handed over to tho navy; -and tho rest «ro declared to have become unserviceable. Among lh«8 armv Zeppelins was Hint destroyed by Sub-Lieut. Warnfcrd, V.C.