GERMANY

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 210, 12 February 1915, Page 5

GERMANY

COUNT ZEPPELIN'S VAPORINGS. REGRETS KILLING NONCOMBATANTS. AND OFFERS LAME EXCUSES. Times and Svdnpy Sun Services. London, February 10. Count Zeppelin, interviewed by n ; i American after the return of the airsi, ips from the East Cur.si raid, said that air war was hound to become a vital factor in the strife between the nations, Mid might become as important, as under-sca. warfare. Whether there would ever be a great battle of air-fleets only the distant future could tell. Persoually, none regretted killing non-co;n-batants more than himself, but had not they been killed by other war engines? Simply because England feared Zeppelins would destroy her splendid isolation, and she had failed herself to build something similar, hopes had arisen that the world would bring pressure to bear against Germany's use of a weapon which was not available in England. The crews of Zeppelins were exposed to g<cater dangers than other fighters, bat vcre just as humano. It was a proof of their humane impulses that unevplodcil b. mbs were found in English towns visited. V7 hrn Zeppelins were fired on their safety often depended *on their ability rapidly to ascend. It might the], be absolutely necessary to throw o.T bombs and ballast. In these circumstances the explosive contacts were disconnected before the bombs were released. Doubtless this was what occurred over the English towns. He claimed that unfortified towns occupied by troops were properly a target of attack.

He declined to say whether a n aerial attack on London had been planned, or if Zeppelins had failed to attain expectations, but stated that they were far from perfection, as they were only at the beginning of the science of aerial navigation.

Amsterdam, Feb i;:irv 10. A Socialist ((inference at IlerNn, liv fis votes against 23 declared against T'r Ue'.Amcht's .car attitv"\ Berlin, February 10.

The issue- of broad tickets is imminent. The authorities arc inducing school-children to renounce sausages and meat for dinner and to take to school only a few slices of bread. The hc.id boys of some schools are supervising the self-denying ordinance.

FOR VALOR AGAINST CIVILIANS. Times and Sydney Sun Services.' Received 11, 5.50 p.m. London, February 11. The. Sultan of Turkey has sent Admiral Von Tirpitz and General Von Fiikenhayn the great gold Turkish medal for bravery.

"DOWN WITH THE KAISER." ON THE BRINK OF REVOLUTION. Times and Sydney Sun Services. Received 11, 5.50 P m . London, February 11. ' A politician in Rome has received a letter from a friend in Berlin. Inside the envelope, in invisible Ink, was written: "The situation is daily becoming more serious. The Germans are fast approaching revolution. One often finds scrawled in chalk o n the walls, 'Death to the Kaiser.'"

VALUABLE CORPSES. Times and Sydney Sun Services. Received 11, 5.58 p.m. London, February 11. Relatives of Germans killed in Belgium are allowed to enter that country to search for their dead and take coflms in order to re-inter them in Germany. It has Jbcen discovered that many coffins returned full of plunder. One fell in a truck, disclosing silver teapots an;l trays, etc.

GERMAN PRESS DUBIOUS. Received 12, 1.10 a.m. Amsterdam, February 11. The Berliner Tageblatt confesses that it is uncertain of German hopes being tealised, or that she will be victorioii-j. The Tageblatt adds: "We know our enemies' present strength, but wc do not know their future strength."