NEW GERMAN METHODS.

Taranaki Daily News, 4 March 1918, Page 5

NEW GERMAN METHODS.

TIIL DLTKNUC OK ZEKBRUCKJIt Renter Service. ' •' Received March 3, 5.5 p.m. Amsterdam, March ft \ the Teiegraafs frontier correspondent , stales that Germans are oontinuouilj i thinking out new methods for the <le« , fence of Zeobrugge by so:. :-nd aiv. Thej. ". send up niLditly unmanned captive bal* • icons fti'.ten.'d by elect riital ateel wire these forming a great danger to airmen coming in contact with them. The Tic* Gorman aeioplanes ale fitted with *thre»'•, screws, oiw so arranged that it the 'machine stationary for some time,' permitting more accurate bombing. Mar- ■ . ine nets arc spread far mit to sea an4f> entailer submarines art being'' built. ' THE ST. MiHIEL FIGHT. AMERICANS DECIMATE ENEM* • Aug. and N.Z. Cable Assoc, and ReutWj. <A Received March 3, 5.20 p.m. j •' Washington, March 2, [ ■«' The correspondent at headquarters W' \ ports that the raid upon the St. Mifciaßt ," salient was preceded by a gas ntUok< t. J The ground in front of the trencliog'was ■' i" strewn with German dead. The Amen*.' 1 , cans lost many killed and wounded. An.. ' American captain led his company to'.' ■ "No Mar's Land'' after the German*} '. were repulsed and decimated tham.jri£h'' • machine guns. The captain wae killed. '*.