In the Air.
GERMAN CLAIM MUCH DAMAGE. /"United Press Association. 1 Amsterdam, April 8. A German communique claims that naval airships on Wednesday night destroyed large ironworks near Whitby, after previously putting out of action a battery north of Hull. It says that they also attacked factories at Leeds f and a number of railway station, in an industrial district. The /airships returned undamaged. THE LATEST ZEPPELINS. London, April 7. The latest Zeppelins are almost invisible, as the result of German experiments, and searchlights find increasing difficulty in picking them up. When discovered they endeavor to elude the searchlights by rising lyThe Tildes says that country correspondents agree that the latest Zeppelins have decreased in .noisiness, indicating that the persistent efforts to silence the engines are becoming more successful.
The Cologne Gazette says that the series of air raids on England is duo to a conversation between the Kaiser and Count Zeppelin, who was recently summoned to headquarters. The Gazette regrets the loss of Ll 5, and adds that England only saved the crew because she was afraid to repeat the shameful act of the trawler King Stephen, whose captain refused to take off the crew of Ll 9 when it was found floating in the North Sea.
"THE EAGLE OF LILLE." GERMAN AVIATOR'S TACTICS. (Received 8.30 a.m.) London, April 9. The Daily Mail's correspondent says that the German aviator, Immeiraann's methods are less heroic than scientific. He mounts sometimes 13,000 feet over his own lines and awaits an invading plane. He takes a long straight dive, passing diagonally over it; hit or miss, he does not attempt to pursue, hut merely continues a hawk-like dive towards home. He is called "The Eagle of Lille." as he usually hovers there. British photographers who are obliged to fly low are much braver. THE BRITISH AIR FLEET. FINEST AEROPLANE IN THE WORLD. (Received 9 a.m.) London, April 9. Mr Pemberton Billing,, M.P., speaking at Newcastle, said that instead of Zeppelins we had the finest aeroplane in tlie world, and within half a year we may regain and retain our supremacy of the air. We are able now to defend ourselves better even than the anti-aircraft guns.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 6, 10 April 1916, Page 5
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