Aerial Warfare

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 247, 27 March 1915, Page 5

Aerial Warfare

AIRMEN'S REPORT ON PRZEMYSL.

LATEST RAIDS IN BELGIUM

HOW ZEPPELINS ARE GUIDED,

Amsterdam, March 20.

Four workmen were killed at the llobokeri works, and sixteen seriously and many others slightly wounded. Crossley-Meates, the airman, states that he also dropped bombs, and when returning lost his way in the fog. He was greatly surprised to find he had landed in Holland, elieving it was Prance.

London, March 25.

It is reported from Calais that cyclists were seen ey/cling beneath the Zeppelins. Evidence is accumulating tliat mos* of the Zeppelin and aeroplane raids ire accompanied by similar efforts by Gor-man-paid cyclists and motorists, sometimes carrying pigeons.

MUCH DISEASE, NO FOOD.

Viena, March 25,

Five airmen who escaped from Przemysl state that the hospitals had been "crowded during the last fewweeks. Nearly half the garrison was sick owing to privations. Two tins of food were distributed before each sortie, but in many cases the stomachs of tlie exhausted men were unable to digest the food anH some died. Except horseflesh the only meat remaining was carrier pigeons, which were offered to General Kusmnnek, who refused them and sent them to the hospital. The Austrians Mew up the fort*, magazines, batteries and bridges. The aviators hovered above watchinc the destruction and then flew off to Cracow.

TOO LATE!

Received March 26, 5.25 p.m. London, March 20.

The Emperor Francis Joseph sent fin air-letter to Przemysl: "Saviours and honors await you, my heroes. Hold cn until spring. We shall be victors."

PARIS ENRAGED,

AIR REPRISALS URGED.

TO DISPEL GERMAN ILLUSIONS

Received March 20, 9.55 p.m.

Paris, March 20,

The public are enraged at the Zeppelin raids and the escape of the German airmen.

The newspaper Excelsior says: "We and .our allies have abstained through chivalry from striking at German cities. We have reserved our attacks for military establishments. We have already demanded reprisals against an enemy who disregarded the conventions of war. The cities of the Rhine are within easy reach of our airmen, and it has become necessary to spread terror among the German people, who are still so full of illusions. Oil the day when our bombs explode above their heals they will exchange their confidence .'or panic. Our aerial blockade will complete the maritime and economic blockade.