The sun., 1916-10-29
NEW WEAPONS
END ZEPPELIN
FEAR IN LONDON
Residents Now Enjoy Raids
as laundering Good
Sporting Game.
FEAR GERMANS WILL
STOP COMING OVER
British Have Secret Meth.
DDS Of Bringing Down
Big Craft.
INVENTIONS FOR AIR
AND LAND PERFECTED
Bitter Feeling Against
Enemy Crews Changes to
One of Amusement.
~ JOHN l..

''e''v4'A'. 1916 sy re xec'"'e Ne''''s'e'
LONDON. Oct. 1.-THE Zeppelin men.
ace. like the submarine danger. has ap-
parently been scotched. When the
U-boats commenced sinking unarmed
merchantmen symptoms Of panic were
not lacking In civilian quarters in these
islands. but there was no panic at the
Admiralty.
BY new inventions and new methods
the seamen found out how to track
down and destroy the submarine, to the
layman . seemingly invulnerable engine
Of war. Similarly when night air raids
commenced It was laid that the only
protection lay In darkness. that no
human ingenuity could meet and de-
stroy great airships moving a mile a
minute through the ether. And all the
new tactics for night air fighting. which
were put into effect for the first time
last month. and In the last four raids
have brought down fou Zeppelins on
English soil.
There il still another parallel be-
tween the campaigns against subma-
rines and Zeppelins. In each case the
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secrecy and nothing may be described
that might by any chance afford in
formation to the enemy. Already i'm
piovements rave been made in the
a~nti-Zeppelin tactics carried out in the
recent raids by aeroplanes. searchlights,
guns on the ground and other things.
and the men Of the royal flying corps
and the anti-aircraft corps are praying
that the Germans may not realize that
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Inns at home before an entire fleet OF
the great monsters Is fired and de-
stroyed.
More Raids Expected.
Other great aid at the end Of this
month are expected. when the moon is
absent from the sky. and after that
weather conditions will make further
large scale expeditions from Germany
to England impossible until e spring.
The fascination Q Zeppelin raid holds
fer an obsei yer who knows something OF
the new tactics in the sky can scarcely
be imagined. II his post Of vantage 10 a
good one and the weather clear he a
see for a radius OF thirty miles or 30
the mysterious lights above and below
signals from the patrolling a%eroplanes
10 the guns. from the searchliShts to the
a!rmen. the flares dropped by cropping
Zeppelins. and by imperilled aviators.
who have lost their bearings and must
learn their whereabouts or risk q fatal
smashup.
To the watching millions, who know
nothing Of these things. the many
quickly disappearing lights are simply
lights and nothing more; all attention
10 concentrated on the searchlights tire
lessly questioning the stars. the an
truder when he has been nxed and held
by their remorseless shafts anu the
shells are bursting around II.
But when the climax approaches the
countless myriads Of people in the
mentary expectation Of the most Won
derful and terrible spectacle in the
world, miss the finer points OF the COM
bat two miles above their heads. The
Zeppelin gripped by the s~earchlights
turns and twists. rises and falls. vainly
attempting to escape, tiny stars bios
som In the sky about the yellowish cigar
every one sees. has seen In every raid
since the Zeppelins FIRST came last year.
But last year that was all there was to
see.
Airships Begin Work.
Now the spectator who knows his
slasses-they must be good ones
trained not OF the Zeppelin but on the
s~earchlight beams below and above the
sirship. sees shadows that seem like
hies pass n repass through the light
they are ~aeroplanes closing In for the
attack. Then amidst the shell bios
SONS tina wink and 80 out again like
hrenies appear tiny moving lights that
DO not 70 out for several seconds, and
IN answer dots and dashes appear
upon tho clouds. thrown there by search
lights detailed for signal duty.
What has happened? b ae%roplanss
have siEnalled that they are ready to
attack. have received orders to close In
and deal the finishing blow-and no
sooner has The answering signal ap-
peared in the sky than the guns stop
and give the airmen their chanc
That instant of silence Is the critical
moment. II the attack succeeds . bright
flame appears almost Immediately.
quickly running up and down the Frame
work of the Zeppelin. In q few seconds
enveloping . gas bag a. long as the
Lu,itania In . confederation which lights
UP the sky for fifty miles. And for nifty
mile. in every direction shouts and
cheers 20 up from the watching multi
tudes. the noise rousins sieepers from
their beds and bringing them tumbling
into the streets in time 70 SEE the nnal
plunge Of the blasting comet to destruc-
ton.
Weapons Never Heard OF.
There are weapons used up there
which tho world has never heard OF.
which were designed for the special
purpose Of destroying Zeppeuns. The
reason Lieut. Robinson got the Victoria
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