New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-14
Disasters Leave Only ID
AirShips Available
for Raiding.
WARNEFORD'S DEED
CAUSED A PANIC
Most Famous Dirigible Blown
Up with Hangar-NOne
Left in Belgium.

London, July I3.-Ihe OhtonlcIe
displays an article which, it suggests
in an editorial note, contains Inner
knowledge of the change which has
come over the German disposition with
regard to Zeppelins. 1t is stated def
nitely that since the triumphs Of Lieu
tenant Warneford, Y. c., and Of the air
shed near Brussels, Belgium, has been
cleared of the Zeppelns and the as
cendancy of Britain's aerial armadas
is connoted by the suspension Of Zeppe-
lin raids on the east coast"
The article says:
"Over a month has passed since the
Lz-5S was destroyed in its shed at
Evere and the Lz-37 brought to the
ground by Warneford. The AERIAL Of
fensive of the Zeppelins, in short. has
been broken. | do not pretend that
there will be no more raids while the
was lasts To suppose that argues a
very poor understanding OF German de-
termination. Yet it does remain a re-
markable fact that just at the time OF
the year when, according TO experts,
weather conditions are most favorable
for aerial activity, the enemy has been
paralyzed by the discovery that he has
now to face a lew British war organl-
zation, only recently established, yet
marvellously efficient, as already
proved by inficting on Germany the
most absolute check she has expert
enced in ten months.
Not a Zeppelin In Belgium.
"Information which reached me from
diverse sources in Belgium and on
which place complete reliance enables
me to state that since July 6 not
single Zeppelin has been left in Bel
GUM, save one which was seriously
damaged on June 7, and which the
Germans are trying to repair as best
they can at Namur. All the giant steel
and concrete sheds built at great pans
and great expense within the occupied
territory 70 shelter Count Ieppelin's
famed air feet are now empty Some
of them are vast enough to accommo-
date three OF these huge destructive
engines. They are now deserted halls.
"The fright, sheer blanched fright,
that followed the drama Of the LIS
and the Lz-3S has sent the wave OF
aerial invasion recoiling into Germany.
1t would be quite impossible to eIag-
gerate the panic that accompanies the
fall of the blazing carcass of the Yep
pelin destroyed by Warneford and the
blowing up Of the Eyere hangar and ITS
contents What perhaps most affect
ed the morale of the enemy was the
fact that the List, Lieutenant Warne-
ford's victim, was a brand new Zeppe-
| lin, undergoing its first tests, and had
! on board several of Count Zeppelin's
chief engineers"
Famous Lz-3S Destroyed.
The Lz-3s. according to THE Chron-
icle's" correspondent, was the most
famous of all Zeppelins 1t was the
LBS which bombarded Ramegate and
South End and part Of the London
area. at had therefore pretty busy
lease of life before it blew up in the
shed at Evere on June 7, when fifty
men were burnt to death. Naturally
Germans have done rheir utmost to be
little and confuse the news OF its de-
struction. and have started report
that it was a Parseval and not this
famous Zeppelin that was in the shed
at Evere. Nothing can be further from
the truth. have talked with folk from
/ Brussels who saw the Lz-3S come from
7 its shed at $3.50 p. m. on June Z and re-
enter it, never to come out again, at
$3.50 p. m, after brief flight.
There is no room for doubt, taking
into account the Zeppelins destroyed
! by British bombs or by accidents Of all
kinds on one hand and on the other
those recently built under more or less
secrecy, that we are justified in con
| GLIDING the German air feet at this
moment cannot possess more than nj
teen Zeppelins capable of taking the
air. This calculation is supplied by eX-
/ pert authority"