The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-07-05
SUPER ZEPPELINS
TO ATTACK LONDON
Giant Airships With New
Equipment Being Built,
Correspondent Hears.
KAISER SPARED ENGLAND
Special correspondenc to Tnr suS.

special FOrrSsDOndSnte TO " 'b"'
LONDON, June 2o.-Germany Is not
proud Of her poisonous gas. but she Is
inordinately pleased with the possibin-
ties OF her Zeppelins and her new super
Zeppelins. according to a special cor
respondent OF the Daily Mail Tho has
been travelling in Germany. Interest
Ing information regarding the new SUI
pe~r-Zeppelirs was obtained by the cor
respondent from an authority on mill
tary subjects.
Just as some of our submarines are
larger than the English KNOW" he said.
80 Is the new super-Zeppelin quite a
different bird from the one we allowed
the French to capture near Nancy a
couple of years back. Those stupid
Frenchmen fell upon that airship or
ours. photographed II, measured II up
and found there was nothing new In
Il. We'll. there was nothing new in that
one. That is why we let the French
get II.
by making the parts all over Ger
many and assembling them In Fried
~richshafen, Brussels, Baden-Oos tthe
junction for Baden-Baden) and else
where we can put into the air a new
Zeppelin every three weeks, now that
We have got things going. As a mat
ter Of fact. our difficulty is not Zeppe-
Inns, but insufficient Ballon-Hellen tair-
ship sheds). These take even longer
to build than Zeppelins.
says Kaiser spared England.
II am not in the secrets of aircraft,
except that / have one or two friends In
the air service. but I do know that our new
super-Zeppelins have a speed OF at least
eighty English miles an hour in favor-
able circumstances some say more.
They are armed for defence with well
placed light machine guns, and for Of
fensive purposes are being provided
with bombs that will come as a con-
siderable surprise to those who have
only seen the work of the bombs That
have hitherto been dropped.
III II was not for our good peace
loving Kaiser, who is always opposed
to violence. our scientists could very
eoon end the war. so far as England
Is concerned. by Zeppelins alone ~
How? 80 the correspondent asked.
THAT is one Of the Government Sc
~crets.' replied the German.
Throughout Germany n fnds a
blind belief in the idea that the Gov
m has some wonderful scheme
or invention in reserve. II may be
largely bluff" but. or the other hand
apparent German, blum" sometimes CO.
incides with German accomplishment
Poisonous gas. for example. may ave
been the surprise they 'fQretold in jan
uary and February. The making OF
gas. which there is reason. to believe
largely takes place at Hochst, near
Frankfort-on-Main, must have beer
known to a great many people in that
great ugly chemical town, which has
sprung up like a mushroom on the
ashes, as the Germans always tell one
of the late lamented English m
business. Perhaps some OF the Ham
burg mans Zeppelin information may
therefore be accurate.
Training for big Air Raid.
Our new Zeppelins,' he continued
"are not loaded with gas that can be Sc
alight, as the old ones were. They will
my friends tell me. Withstand the enec'
OF explosive or other ~incendiary bullets
The trips we are making to England
Just now. which are a good deal mor'
numerous. I think, than either the Ger
man or the English people are aware
though bomb dropping Is not often in
dulged in except by way OF experiment
are but mere preliminaries for the grea
attack on London
THE English do no, seem to know
that We are not sending the same Yep
pelins or the same Zeppelin officers eac'
time although no Leppel n EVER zoe
without n pilot who has had previou
experience OF the air field over England
We send our Zeppelins on trial journey
over England. firstly, 10 test them, an
secondly, to instruct the n~avigators an
crew. The reason a different crew /
sent each time is that when the hi
attack !s made we shall have a s~ufficien
number of crews with the requisite ex
perience. -
MY friends tell me that /. takes mur
longer 10 train a submarine crew. tina
a Zeppelin crew. Do not believe tn
tales the English tell you of The de
struction OF Zeppelins. We lost SON
In the rough weather of the early par
OF the year. ! admit"
Usefulness Of Z%~ppeins.
This conversation took place befor
Lieutenant Warneford's exploit in Dc
stroyinp, single handed, "A Zeppelin. Blu
: as a matter Of fact, up TO the time IN
' correspondent left Germany no news {
> thie feat was given in any Germa
newspapers that came under his notice,
"Zeppelins." observed the German IL
, formant. ARE useful for 2 good man
purposes and we are finding more metl
I DDS Of using them every day, just n
I we have found the submarines can b
2 used for observation, attacking or mir
. laying. Zeppelins are excellent Il
' scouting, oh by land and sea. The
a. A. A.rtI ,l,l ~