The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER SATURDAY, APRIL 1, 1916. THE GERMAN ZEPPELIN.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 99, 1 April 1916, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER SATURDAY, APRIL 1, 1916. THE GERMAN ZEPPELIN.

Apropos of the cabled statement that Germany is turning out a Zeppelin every ten days, a correspondent of the Lyttelton Times asks if there are any reliable statistics to show the number of Zeppelins the enemy has lost. In replying the Times says that Mr John Buchan, who is a cautious historian, has a note on the subject in Volume 8 of his "History of the War/' giving an average loss of about one a month in the first year of the war. No definite figures are given for the first six months., but Mr Buchan gives the total as six at the outside. In February of last year two of the largest, L 3 and LA, were wrecked on the Banish coast in a snowstorm. On© of these, by the way, was stationed at Tondern, and the dirigible that replaced it was the one that came to grief in the North Sqa early last month, after taking part in a raid on the English coast. In March L 8 was wrecked near Tirlemont. In April a Zeppelin lent to Austria came to grief in the Adriatic. In May a dirigible stationed at Konigsberg broke from its moorings and was destroyed. And so the tale proceeds, the total up to August being at least twelve. The London Daily Cbronicle compiled a table of its own from the reports showing that twenty-one Zeppelins and eight other dirigibles had been lost up to the end of November.

Zeppelins. Other airships. Fate of Crew. 1914. Aug. 2 12 killed, 12 .prisoner Sept. 1 2 81 prisoners. Nov. 1 1 Dee. —2 1915. Jan. 1 1 16 killed, 7 prisoners Feb. 1 1 16 killed, 27 interned March 2 33 killed April 1 • 11 killed j[ av 9 1 40 prisoners June 2 23 killed Aug. 2 U lolled, 1.0 prisoners Sept. I—2 killed Oct 13 1 Crew saved. Nov. 4 21 8 121 killed ISO 27 interned T)npr>ml><>r nnd January were not favorable months for airship ventures',

but February opened with the loss of Ll 9 in the North Sea after a raid on ngland and a few weeks later the French anti-aircraft service brought down a Zeppelin by brilliant shooting. How many Zeppelins have been smashed by aeroplane raids during the past few months there is no means of knowing. ..>