Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-09-29


The British navy has one of them al
present, and when the war broke out
four of their best pilots were in vari-
Gus countries abroad demonstrating
the merits of the Albatross biplane.
Placed Under Arrest.
Three days before the outbreak OF
war, my friend Mr.. Whitaker and ar
Irish sportsman who has since Joined
the Royal Flying corps, were in the
Albatross office at Johannisthal, in
quiring about buying an aeroplane
Albatross works were placed under
arrest. 1t was reported that this
manager had been shot as a spy, a.
the same time as Hirth, and his arrest
on that occasion probably is the orr
|, gin of the whole story.
At the present moment it is proba-
bly, inadviSable to say much about al
the good work that is being done by
the Royal Naval Air Service and by
the Royal Flying corps in the way OF
protecting this country against aerial
attack, but it may be assumed that il
any German aircraft did manage to
reach this country, it is not likely to
get as far as London, and it certainly
never will get back.
Personally, l am not quite sure
that a few bombs dropped in our part
of the world might not be rather good
for recruiting, for, despite the de-
scriptions of the fighting published
the war seems to be far away.
Quotes Americans Story.
One of the most interesting OF re-
cent letters to the press was that
from Mr.. Hyndman, telling of the
Weird tales he had heard from two
American "oil engineers" who had
just come back from Germany. He
said:
They (the two Americans) paid a
visit to the flying station, and estimate
that there were over fifty Zeppelins
waiting to start, and hundreds OF
aeroplanes ready also. There was i'm
mense activity in constructing new
craft and training new men, as many
as a hundred aeroplanes being in the
air at once with learners. From gen.
eral conversation they gathered that
there would be Il great combined at
tack by the naval and aerial fleets al
some auspicious moment"
Curiously enough friend of mine
recently met two other Americans
who had very similar tale TO tell
1t appears. as the papers have stated
that Germany is laying herself out tc
buy American sympathy, and also tC
| impress American citizens with hei
enormous strength in the air.
! Americans leaving Germany are
filled up with the most astonishing
stories and other things.
They are feasted and banqueted anc
entertained and finally are literally
escorted to the stations by bras:
bands. Naturally they cannot hell
believing something of what their kline
hosts tell them.
This story, which gives the impress
sion of fifty Zeppelins at Johannis
thai, is apparently either due to MI
Hyndman not understanding tn
American language or to those Amer
leans being exceptional liars. Mari
that Mr. Hyndman does not say the!
saw fifty Zeppelins on that grount
ready to start. They merely estimate
there were-somewhere in German,
fifty Zepplins. The statement tina
they paid a visit to the flying sta
ton" is a separate statement from
their estimate" which was presuma
bly, based on what they heard there
not on what they saw.
Nine Months to Build Zeppelin.
Zeppelins cannot be built in secre
places or in factories intended TO
other work. and they take nin'
months to build. The latest Zeppe
lin in process of building before tn,
war was / believe, about No. %. !
number Of earlier ones were destroy
ed, and two of the most recent also
and at the beginning of the war ther
were estimated to be eleven in work
ing order. Accelerated construction