In the Air.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 3, 6 April 1916, Page 5

In the Air.

EARLY-MORNING VISIT. NO DAMAGE REPORTED. [Unitmo Pbmm AmooiationA London, April 4. Official: It is reported that a Zeppelin crossed the East Anglian coast between 2 and 3 o’clock this morning. It does not seem to have been long over, the land. Although several explosions are reported, no fragments of bombs have been discovered yet, and no damage nor casualties can lie traced. V< . !

NEW ZEPPELIN BOMBS. : .• h INCREASED SIZE OF RAIDERS. London, April 4. It is officially stated that the Zeppelin bombs contain' a new explosive which causes blue flames, smoke, and ultra-sweet non-injurious fumes. It is concluded that the Germ'ahs ing wood fibre instead of cotton, and have been compelled to invent a substitute for nitro-glycerine. Other reports state that one of tho most significant features is the increased size of the Zeppelins, the ten ific strength of the explosive shells, and the use of gas bombs.® All accounts agree that the markmanship of the anti-aircraft gunners is splendid. In one district seventy incendiary bombs and some explosive shells have been collected. Many of the latter had failed to explode. A piece of rough cardboard was found in a field in an eastern county, on which was written in pencil, “Vengeance for the airship wrecked in the North Sea recently.

GERMAN PRESS HATRED.

INCREASING THE FRICHTFULNESS. (Received 9.40 a.m.) Amsterdam, April 5. The Cologne Gazette says; “The Zeppelins will go to England more and more frequently, and be armed with increasingly terrible weapons. The English, who arc preventing the awful war from being terminated, will learn from the air raids that the war will bring them c.c- more frightful surprises.”