Second Edition. In the Air.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 52, 7 February 1916, Page 6

Second Edition. In the Air.

FRENCH AIR RAID IN BALKANS BULCAR TOWN SUFFERS SEVERELY. [United Press Association.] Palis February G. Lo Temps’, Athens correspbnden says that French aeroplanes on Tnes 1 day dropped two hundred bombs o; Petrieli. Lj A Bulgarian communique admits i thousand casualties, including 47i I people killed. MONDAY’S RAID. THE WAR OFFICE REPORT. y London, February o. The \Var Office reports that serious damage was clone by Monday’s raid Three breweries, three railway-sheds one engine-shed, one. tube, factory, and one blacksmith’s shop were destroyed. Minor damage was done to a munition factory, and several industrial works and fifteen Working-class houses were demolished; The latest casualty' list shows that twenty-six men, twenty-eight women, and seven children were killed, while forty-eight.men, forty-six women, and seven children were injured. The Government does not intend in future to issue detail?-; but will do so on this occasion to. show bow unfounded are the German claims that the economic life of '.Britain or her , military preparations' can bo appreciably affected by promiscuous bombdropping. u i: NO SIGN OF WRECKAGE. PRESS ADVOCATES REPRISALS. London, February -1. Two warships searciiod tho vicinity of the Zeppelin disaster, but tound no wreck. It is believed mat the airship i sunk. ; j , Lord -Rosebery-s letter advocating reprisals is widely quoted. The Pall Mall Gazette declares that it will be endorsed by an overwhelming majority of the country. The Westminster Gazette hopes that the reprisals will be directed against military objects only, to avoid •dissipating our activity; 'J be raid j has revived the schemes of a great! aerial offensive. \ The Daily-j&«1 argues that we havej lost our mobility on land and sea, and onlyU’thd offers 'freedom of movement, We should have a tremendous fleet .of air>ltltTr^ , ~Trtittckm g the enemy communications. A scheme to provide twenty-live pilots daily is impossible irr .Fnglaud, owing to atmospheric difficulties. However, a suitI able aerodrome is easily procurable in the south of France, and some experts ask. Is it not time that Britain reconsidered her decision regarding tho utility of airships? ANTI-ZEPPELIN FEELING. London, February 1Mr Co wen,' proprietor of the Newcastle Chronicle, offers £IOOO to the crew of the first aircraft to bring down a Zeppelin in Britain or her territorial waters.