IN THE AIR.
IMPROVED ZEPPELINS. RAIDS TO RECOMMENCE. Received August 4, 9 p.m. Paris, August 4. Since Lieutenant Warnel'ord's feat and the Zeppelins' withdrawal, from Belgium, experiments have boon carried on to secure higher flight and greater speed. As a result extra motors have been added, increasing the speed twenty-live per centum, and an apparatus has been installed for distributing a Hertzian wave, enabling operators to control the direction of aerial torpedoes for a distance of two miles. The number of machine-guns on the top of dirigibk'3 was augmented, but experiments failed to add armor to tho top. An increase in the interior compartments has been made in order that each breach may cause iess loss. It is expected that raids will recommence when the present rain and thunderstorms end. STRASSBURG BOMBED, Paris, August 3. The Havas Agency reports that a flotilla of Anglo-French aeroplanes flew over Strassburg and dropped twentyfive bombs. The damage done was not learned.
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Taranaki Daily News, 5 August 1915, Page 5
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158IN THE AIR. Taranaki Daily News, 5 August 1915, Page 5
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