General News

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 34, 11 February 1915, Page 3

General News

ZEPPELIN INTERVIEWED.

BEGINNING idiferiCE OF AERIAL NAVIGATION. INVENTOR’S PARDONABLE PRIDE. Times and Sydney Sun Service. (Received 8 a.m.) London, February 10. Count Zeppelin, interviewed by an Anierican fiewsi)as£rriian after tbe return of the airships from the last English Coast raid-, said that air-war was bound to become a vital iactor in strile between nations, Anti it may become as important as under-sea warfaie. Whether there would ever be great battles between airrfeets, only the distant future can tell. Personally, none regretted the killing, of non-combat-ants more than himself, but, he asked, haVe not they been killed by other war engines P Simply because England fears that the Zeppelins will destroy her splendid isolation, and tailed herself to build something similar, she hopes to arouse the world and bring pressure to bear against''Gertnany’s use of* a' weapon which is not available in England. The trews of the Zepfreilns- were exposed to greater dangers than in other fights," but ’they Mvere just human, and a proof of their humane impulses was the fact that unexploded bombs were found ’in ■■ the English towns visited. When the Zeppelins are fired on, ho explained, safety often depends on their ability to rapidly ascend, and it may. then, be absolutely necessary to throw off the bombs, which'are carried as ballast. Under these circumstances, the explosive contacts are disconnected before the bombs are released. Doubtless, this was what ’occurrd over' the English towns. He claimed that unfortified towns occupied by troops were, properly, a target for attacks. Count 'Zeppelin declined to say whether an aerial attack 'on London had been planned, or if the Zeppelins had failed to come up' to -expectations, hut 'he Stated l that they were far from perfection, and that w 0 are only beginning the science of aerial navigation.

STORY OF THE EX-KHEDIVE.

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London, February 10

Lord Cromer’s Abbas 11. has been published. It brings the story of the ex-Khedive up to 1895. It describes him as not only avaricious, but as a master of petty intrigue, so wedded to tortuous’ courses that he was incapable of steadfastly pursuing any really loyal, straightforward fourse.'*' V x>