In the Air.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 50, 4 February 1916, Page 5

In the Air.

THE RAID ON PARIS.

FRENCH NEWSPAPER DISCUSSION.

[United Press Association J

Paris, February 2

The Journal des Debats, the Petit Journal, the Baulois and Figaro demand hundreds of more aeroplanes to carry on the campaign against the Apaches. Sea experts point out that anti-Zeppelin aerial weapons are restricted to machine-guns and bombs, cause the new gun-planes, owing to their weight, cannot rise to the altitude of Zeppelins. Guns on land are useless when the Zeppelin is hidden behind mists. Rooting out the Zeppelins from their hangars in Germany is the only effective means of defence. The Petit Parisien graphically describes the chase of the raiders, which used:.new: incendiary bullets. These fell round the pursuers like a stream of : jight. An "aviator chased one of Saturday'* raiders for fifty minutes and peppered it with bullets, but a defect in the motor compelled him to land. The Zeppelin flew at IUO kilometres (60 miles) an hour.

The press scorns the raids and points out the lesson that thirty aeroplanes are needed to bring down a monstrous Zeppelin. The Paris Journal says that the defenders had to work hard because the night was dark and the sky misty.