The sun., 1916-10-29

AZ Cufhey In September was that he
new his victim, exposed to
machine gun bullets, until he MANAGED
10 Nplod the petrol tank Of his enemy;
was ms petrol explosion which caused
.he great burst Of yellow liEht which
. .ned 10 residents Of London as IL
the sun had exploded" The other
Zeppelins downed by shell Are and AT.
sack OF another nature In the air gave
lorln z less Intense reddish orange light,
caused by the explosion Of their gas
oaks and not their petrol tanks.
homos are no longer used In attacks
on Zeppelins, for although warneford
to throw one upon an airship
WIN the desired results. his feat is now
,,esarued as an extraordinary piece Of
iuch. lot IL was afterward found almost
impossible to hit the marx even when
the difficult of living over The
zeppelin had been carried out.
Machine guns of the type ordinarily
carried by aeroplanes are useless in
SUCH warfare and the i%ncendiary missiles
used by airmen In France to bring down
nchor"d sausage balloons are not used
against Zeppelins for the same reason
mat bombs have been discarded, be-
cause they must be thrown by hand and
the chance Of hitting an object moving
as iast rs an express train is infnitesi-
NAL.
Fire Explosive shell.
] have examined in France a con-
trivance fitted In an %aeroplane which
makes It possible to fire explosive shells
from a cannon. This has hitherto been
impossible In the air, because the recoil
from any ordinary gun would upset the
aeroplane. That difficulty has now been
overcome. To attempt further discussion
Of ways and means of bringing down
Zeppelins Ia inadvlsable. In view Of the
censorship on the subject. but 1t may be
said that not only the aeroplanes nave
been improved but also the guns and the
shooting.
Working out trajectories for gunnery
against objects In the air which move
up and down as we'll as forward proved
a diffcult problem. and early in the war
much OF the bad shooting not only
against Zeppel!ns but against aero
planes at the front was due to
lack OF accurate calculation. which
has now been remedied. In Zeppelin de-
fence. coordination between the guns and
the attacking aeroplanes was at first
entirely absent. but now the scheme that
works most often Ii first to cripple the
invader with shell Are from below, and
then. before II can rise out Of range
Gen 0r,s, 4, on ne asron,an. -.
Zenne,In onca dam,goa h,, .,ai, a.. q.
often unable IN care ont The s,vif, -
nnuyrinp which ALONE can nro,.c, 4,
against the warns ~ was,s which
swiftly gather around II.
Change I'm Tempcr.
1 o any one who witnessed the raids
nj Ia. 80 -
OF last autumn ana those IA year later
me most remarkable dinerence between
.ne I'VE was the change IN the temper or
'ne f'rl'sn people caused ny the success
Oh 'ne ne" detehsiHe MEASURES.
iast year many persons were a'ram'
~ 'hose "no We .o' S.arsu "ef" On
49, ansrs anu iel. keehis tne sense OF
neN,'essheSs Sna impotence wniVh comes
.eiriole dahser against when they can
month, aso Lieut., Ma,hev. whose aery
death watched last Sunday mig ut. as
his airshjp came down amid tha,nders
OF cheering that rolled over al, London
shovered bombs on the theatre district.
tho scenes ] witnessed in the strand
were far different.
London was Mortified then now. al.
though IL sounds Gallons To say II. LON
don regards Zeppelin raids as thunderine
good sport. and h. IN typlcal of the Brit
ish sportIng spirit that the intense Bit
terness against the members OF the Zen
pelin crews who murder women and chill
dren IN their sleep hae. in great measure
passed AWAY
A year ago the ..Zeppe,,n. murderer."
the .babv killers" carried ont their on
erations with very little risk TO them
selves: now, every German who comes
to England In the air comes knowine
that the odds against his being burned
10 death before morning are not more
than ten TO one. II takes extraordinary
courage. or discipline. to face such a
risk. and the crowds in the streets
watching the efforts to bring down the
raiders are not slow to ACKNOWLEDGE the
fact.
Uonored by Euemies.
49,, .. J..
II PROOF OF ms chahee OF spirit De
asked. the ouriai rites ACCORDED lne sam
German commanders VINO nave peeh
carried TO their graves on the SHOULDERS
OF British airmen OF the anti-Zeppeiin
service may be cited. There has been
no protest against this, executing from
q small knot OF hre eaters put a year
arms at the proposal to treat the bodies
80 ,.r.,. mh, ~. h,,r,sa IN
III ~ pattNu III