GENERAL WAR NEWS

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 62, 12 November 1915, Page 5

GENERAL WAR NEWS

BRITAIN’S .AIRCRAFT. . \ 17.1 c i 4—tU i 1a t * [Pnitec Press Association.! >< [ London, Npyembeb ,10. The unique series of visits to the Empire’s war wonders, which wa s arranged for leadng Dominion, Arid neutral journalists, had done excellent service in securing neutral press support. Last week they visited the aerodromes and aircraft intones, and saw astonishing activity and fine results of the Flying Coips. Nearly a score of aerodromes are busy training pilot's and observes. There are also aircraft stations filled with all kinds of machines, ready for anything, and more stations are being established. The War Office and Admiralty have practically taken over the motor industry, and the-, output-'bf aeroplanes is immense. I| ba§, 'increased sevenfold since thebbegmumg of the war, and we ivillj-sbon hpye double that againf at-the least. In Tour months the output will have been quadrupled. They are of all sorts and sizfes, arid every model is better than the last. The problem of stability has been solved to perfection, and has given us an undoubted mastery of the air.

Some of the fighting machines are capable of doing 13u miles per hour, and the ordinary model can do miles. We have air dreadnoughts and double-ended battleplanes, and are experimenting with others. The navy has separate shops, and is now experimenting with super-seaplanes, armed and armored, and carrying many passengers. A new German armored aeioplane which was seen at the Russian front was fitted with two propellers, two maxim guns, and wireless apparatus, and was of 3o() horse-power. Colonel Repington says that, after a gallant resistance, the Serbian army has been driven out of the heart of the country by overwhelming forces. Eighteen Austro-German and nine Bulgarian divisions are opera turn: in Serbia, bn* he has not ascertained the Turkish force or the forces on the Bulgraian coasts and Greek frontier. The situation of the AngloFrench forces on the line Doirjin-Krl-jvolak is necessarily difficult, and the enemy will attempt to overwhelm them as soon as the Serbs are crushed. They will, almost without doubt, threaten the Greeks unless the An-glo-French are interned. If we recross the Greek frontier ; hoy will follow up and attack. We are pursuing another sentimental journey, more creditable to our hearts than oiu heads. London, November 10. The Times’ naval correspondent says: “We are witnessing how submarines have changed naval warfare, land are affecting the problems connected with the rights of neutrals. I America complains that merchantmen are sent to port for search, hut time is the essence of the problem. Me j are most manifestly within our rights in preventing neutrals supplying the enemy. Tim Allies are not to he blamed, or the fault lies with Germany in violating the laws of humanity. Where we are exercising the rights of search our vessels are exposed to attack, and must he protected. America’s assertion that the blockade is ineffective does not take account of recent activity in the Baltic. Germany is admitting that her trade is paralysed.”