German Aerial Traps
AN ELECTRIC BARRIER.
The frontier correspondent of the Tclcgraaf reports that the Germans at Zeebrugge have adopted a new method for catching hostile airmen. Towards evening they send up 20 captive balloons, without crews, and attached t» electrified steel cables. The electric barrier thus created is claimed to constitute a great danger to all airmen coming into contact with it. The Germans, it is asserted, have also manufactured a new and improved type of aeroplane fitted with three propellors, one being so arranged that it can keep the aeroplane for some time stationary above a certain point, thus permitting the bomb-thrower to aim with greater accuracy.
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Levin Daily Chronicle, 14 May 1918, Page 4
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109German Aerial Traps Levin Daily Chronicle, 14 May 1918, Page 4
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