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What the English have done in this THE ZRPPELIN AEROPLANE
DESCRIPTION OF NEW GERMAN
GIANT,
LEST WE FORGET
war is too recent to need. recapitulation. AMERICAN PAPER'S GENEROUS They gradually took over greater · and
TRIBUTE TO ENGLAND.
greater sections of the front. They first fought de
defensive actions with
all the We must not let our delight in the dogged courage for which the British are
lights, famous then the released the series of fugien (giant, aeroplane), of which so Batcavishing achievements
The great four-engine German Riesen that early turn bearing themselves like veterans on the in the tide which bloodiast battlefields in history and Allied offensives that finally sent the Ger against the most intensively trained mans back to the Hindenburg line and much has been heard on paper and of the other big things that have been and military partner of France and there is in the air daring the lust six months, troops ever sent into action, blind va to bevond. They rose to the rank of a full which a certain amount has been heard is in fact an authentic Zeppelin aero
oo higher rank
are being done in this tremendous tourna- ment of the nations. Ever in our appraise. For all this, they paid. There is hardly plane. ment of the great deeds of our Allies, a home in Great Britain, which does not
The declaration is "made in a mont we have naturally dwelt chiefly upon the hate its unvisited grave in France or elaborate detailed article by M. Jean quexpected and the gloriously bizarre Belgium-not a street on which the par Lagorgette, who is one of the leading the slaying of the Goliaths by the daring manently waimed do not limp to une technical writers.in France and has made Davids We bare not stopped to combustomed tasks. And the figures show
a spesial study of German aeroplanes. ment on the solidity of Mont Blanc that the Mother Country exceeds the per- Hitherto the
But it is, after all, on the solidity of centage from the Overseas Dominions,
four-engine Germant the Mont Blanes that we build. We all thus disposing of one of the vilest, mean.achines, have been known commonly as knew the stuff of which Old England was nest, most dastardly lies of the whole the Lizen: type. M. Lagorgutte sechs at made. What she has done in this war Satanic German propaganda which this name, and shows that it merely im
quietly, unboastingly as is her wont charged that the English were putting is that this machine is made under has surprised no one who knew English their Colonials and their Allies in the once by some firm other than the actual character,
turtina, and English forefront of the battle. Lord Northcliffe that to call them Zara: aeroplanes is very nistrate magnati cuina and Ruglish forefront of the best Bothel
He adds humemusly designing firm.
tioned various moments at which the
much as if one talked of an zerplane England's contributions outside the designed by the famous blundering bully of Berlin lost the war western front have been worthy of aor as if one mentioned railway
Mr. Patent,' and his chance to conquer and enslave great nation, even if they stood alone. built by the great firm of Smoker 18 the world: but those who take long views. Her navy has kept the seas free for the of things and recognize the primal forces commerce and the troop transports of nge
After most laborious study of the wreck- which have shaped the destiny of nations the Allied world. It has bottled shine brought down near Paris, he arrives at of the four-engine Hun bomber since the disintegration of the Empire will agree that the doom of Gers have coaled. fed and munitioned the by the famous Albatross Conipany, who
German navy from the first. Her
conclusion that
the
machine was hails many's despotic ambition was sealed on
day that Britain's councillors wheeled the French-brought legions and food biplanes on which Baron von Richthofen Italians for a time fed and munitioned made the little single-seat destroyer that nation into line with the forces of supplies from the Seven Seas. Freedom.
We are achieved his reputation, but that the giant proud of our own swift shipment of machine has been very largely designed of the soul-shaking danger this last sum troops to the firing line during the days by the Zeppelin Company's eng
engineers. mers but well over half of thers went in various points about the giant muching. M. Lagorgette bases his argument on British bottoms convoyed by British war To begin with, a great deal of the con ships.
struction Then, where have not the British
embodies aluminium alloy of fought The Suez was in danger.
precisely the kind used in the manufacture was the British that protected it. There material itself the same, but it is used in It of the Zeppelin airships. Not only is the were German naval stations in the Pacife. a way which has hitherto been peculiar to The British mopped them up. asked help by way of the Dardanelles. of the material-chiefly in the tail-are Bussia the Zeppelin. That is to say. various hits The British tried to give it. Interven-assembled in the Zeppelin fashion.
the
CHARACTERISTIC
the Kaiser possessed prescience or had read his history, he must have shiver ed-as tradition says we do if some one steps on our grave when he knew for certain that his spies had lied and that the stubborn, stick-to-it, bulldog British had decided to live or die with the French. The British have a bad record for an ambitious despot to face. They brought Philip of Spain to his knees
curbed the power of Louis the Great of France they grappled with the mighty N iapoleon and never let go."
So they entered upon the task of bringtish supplied it.
tion was needed on the Tigris. The Bri ing down to paraphrase Kipling the Salonien British ships were in the Beast that walked like a Man.
The most characteristically Zeppelin. They Adriatic.. were under obligations to send some freed Africa from the Germans. British which the wire bracing of the wings and The British Colonial troops item in the construction is the methed by eighty thousand soldiers to help the diplomacy steadied the Moslem world of the body is secured, writes Mr. C. G. French.
The Kaiser, measuring their when the Turkish Bulsan and his Sheik Grey, editor of the teraplane. The honour by his own, thought they would ul-Islam proclaimed holy war The method of doing so is, perhaps, too. perfunctorily and literally redeem this British to-day, are moving south from technical for an article of this kind, so pledge, and let it go at that. Beace Archangel and are at Vladivostock. his remark about their contemptible
it must suffice to say that in no aircraft little army. The fact is that Great Britill we came in to share the titanic task bracing been fitted in this particular way. The British financed the Allied nations other than the Zeppelin airships has cable tain alone has sent on land and sea a Her industries have clothed, munitioned total of six and a quarter millions. Her and supplied them in various vital ways, cular way in which each of the four Another peculiarity is that the parti-
airscrew
The British were at
By that they mean that is that used in the Zeppelin
"We are A Thousands of Ameri-i that there could be but one of two ends machine captured is arranged to carry a
Empire has added two and a quarter The Germans say that she has "prolong engines drives its correspon hips, and millions more to this. Over eight mil ed the war." Lions instead of eighty thousand hup- dred in place of one. That is the British he has kept up the fighting spirit of the engines themselves are of the type was. When we send fifteen millions, we
the Allies and supported their morale.sed in the. Zeppelin, but with slightly will have done as well-but not till then.
The Briton is a dour fighter and knows increased power. That is, to any they England was no more a military na death. He never fights a limited liability modified so as to give 300-h.p.
no end to a struggle save victory or are daybach engines of 240-h.p., slightly tion than America when the war began, war-he goes in with his whole soul. The She learned to fight by fighting and day that British khaki appeared upon roughly 133ft. from wing tip to wing tip. The aeroplane itself has span of dying
to-day by her the battlefields of France it was decreed and length about 27ft. The particular tragic experiences.
to us alive and to this conflict-the collature of Ger- very nose of the machine sits a gunner of the Bri- crew of eight or nine men. Right in the of our brothers from the
blood- tish Empire or the final Isles have been many's dream of killed and mutilated and have taught
world
conquest.
observer, who apparently also control the as how to escape.
But no one, save the German Intelli-bomb-dropping gear. Britain made hergence Department, has brown or ever willtly above him are two pilots W
Behind him And armies while France and her own narr know half of what Britain has done.
Fightly
the machine, either alternately, or,
and one imagines.
can lads will come
whole because,
Choustnde
held the gap, and then she poured them When it comes to self-laudation the Bri if necessary Decessary for
to fight back the eruption of Care Men has that threatened to submerge civilization.
Ledger.
ever
seen.-Philadelphie
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the huge, ungainly
One peculia
thing larity abo
about the machine is."
that the whole portion in which these- three man sit is detachable, as if it were the habit of these machines.to crash into walls and trees in landing or stand ou their noses, and so collapse the front portion and presumably squash the people. in it. The rest of the machine. sechs to. be so strongly built as to escape much damage on these occasions.
':
THE CREW.
Behind the pilots there is a place for. wireless operator, and behind him again is a place for two mecànica, who would appear to be pretty well occupied looking. after the four engines. All these detach- meats of the crew are in front of the wings, or immediately before the front portion of the wings. Behind them is the fuel compartment, which is a number of small tanks instead of carry.
split up ing all the petrol is one or two very big tanks. The idea is obviously to aroid losing all
into
all the petrol if one tank is damaged.
The bombs are carried underneath the petrol, tanks, and the particular machine captured seemed to be atted to carry only two bombs of about one toa weight each. These large bombs would certainly be very effective if dropped absolutely on a point of military importance, but the chances against hitting such a point, especially in the dark, would be very great, and it therefore appear are intended to be dropped haphazard appears that they into the residential: quarters of a town- so as to
to wash out as many dwelling houses
as possible and terrorize the inhabitants.
Behind the wings is a gun turret which could easily accommodate three gunners. There are mountings for three guns, one on each side of the body and there is
Falso rail round which a movable gun could be run At: the rear of the gun turret insider the body.
a trap door, which permits the gunner to are directly underneath and rear-warda,"
The whole machine appears to be heavy- and clumsy and alow, but it certainly has great weight-lifting capacity:
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