AEROPLANES IN THE WAR.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 310, 31 December 1914, Page 4

AEROPLANES IN THE WAR.

Mr George Taylor, in an address on “Highways and Byways,” delivered at Sydney a few evenings ago, pointed out that the aeroplane had demonstrated during the war that it must he recognised as a distinct factor in human movements, and had lifted the phrase “the Highway” from the earth to the sky. Referring to “the stwte of the game” at the outbreak of the war,

the lecturer mentioned that Germany and Austria had twenty-five airships and 556 aeroplanes, whilst the Allies, excluding Japan, had 34 airships and 1379 aeroplanes. The Germans, in trusting to the Zeppelin, had neglected the aeroplane, so that at the outbreak of the war there were only 300 qualified German military pilots, whilst the Allies had 2136, not including British, French, and Australian volunteer aviators. The lecturer compared the cowardly attack of the Zeppelins on Antwerp with the adventurous dash of the British aviators on the Zeppelin sheds at Dusseldorf, and pointed out that to-day the daring aviators of the Allies had accounted for five Zeppelins and 98 German aeroplanes. The ramming of the Zeppelins by aeroplanes

was one of the extraordinary features of the war. It meant certain death to the attacker and the attacked. For the soldier on the ground there was always a fighting chance, but none for the man in the air. Under the circumstances, who dare say that romance had gone out of modern war