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According to a Central News messageTrom Amsterdam on Monday, persons who had arrived at Maastricht from Liege stated that on Saturday a Zeppelin airship was wrecked at Liege. No further details have, however, yet been reported. The Journal on Monday reported the following :— " On Saturday two German aeroplanes flew over Nancy, one at a quarter to eight in the morning and the other half an hour later. After being violently bombarded they were obliged to retire with- out having succeeded in throwing any bombs." The Tenedos correspondent of the Tribuna, writing on Monday, said :— " Mine-sweeping operations in the Dardanelles were resumed during the night of Friday, and at dawn the aviators of the Allies succeeded in making above the recently bombarded forts reconnaissances which showed that the operations have been extra ordinarily efficacious." Mr. H. Hamilton Fyfe, writing to the Daily Mail from Petrograd on Monday regarding the fall of Przemysl, said :— " On Sunday three free balloons were sent up. This was an attempt by staff officers to get away with documents of military value which they did not wish to fall into the Allies' hands. Luckily for us the wind changed, and instead of escaping all three came down on Russian territory. An aen plane with letters was brought down last Thursday, and a perusal of the letters showed that the garrison was suffering from lack of food. The horses especially were in bad case and were eating old straw-thatched roofs." In an account of the siege of Przemysl, in the Daily Telegraph, there was the following :— " It is interesting to note the use made of aeroplanes during this siege. Communication between the fortress and the Austrian lines seems to have been maintained almost daily by means of aviators, who kept up a regular post, taking out letters and bringing back as much stores as their machines could carry. One of lhe-e aviators was able to carry as much as 4 cwt. on his machine, and used regularly to bring out two sacks of letters and cards. Balloons were also employed, and only last Friday an aeroplane and three balloons with officers and mails left 1'rzemysl, but were driven from their course by a change of wind, and had to come down in Russian territory." ® ® SAFETY GOGGLES FOR FLYING. To ensure protection to the eyesight in case of a mishap when flying is probably the most important precaution which should be taken by a pilot, and this more especially applies to those pilots who are on active service. In this connection the Triplex Safety Glass Co.'s goggles are fortunately available, and the accompanying photograph which we publish points the moral in a convincing manner. The goggles at the top were worn by a flying officer who recently met with a fatal accident, and it will be seen that the lenses must have obviously encountered some serious blow, which, had he not been killed, and had he been wearing ordinary glass goggles, would without much doubt have caused him the loss of his sight. In sending these goggles to the Triplex Co., a friend of the unfortunate officer wrote, under date of February 26th, as follows, names, etc., being naturally omitted by us :— " The enclosed pair of goggles may interest you. They are che pair worn by ihe late Lieut. , who was unfortunately killed in an aeroplane accident here on the . " The machine fell practically vertically some 300 feet, nose first, the engine being (in front) forced some 2 feet into frozen ground and the entire machine completely wrecked. The speed must have been over 100 m.p.h. " The unfortunate pilot's face was completely wrecked by the instrument board, but the goggles were found in the condition you will find them—still in position. " Please let me have your price lists of goggles." MARCH 26, 1915. On Tuesday D Information published the following report:— "A Taube yesterday flew over Mon-Desert at Nancy. Attacked by artillery, it had to turn, and fell, with one wing broken, near Malzeville. It has also been ascertained that one of the Taubes shot at on Saturday was brought down in the German lines." In the German report issued on Tuesday there was the following:— " Hostile airmen again dropped bombs on Ostend, but no military damage was done, though several Belgians were killed or wounded. "North-west of Verdun a French airman was brought down. " A French aeroplane, with two non-commissioned officers, was- forced to descend near Freiburg, and both airmen were taken prisoners." Mr. James Dunn, writing to the Daily Mail from Rotterdam on Tuesday, said :— " Clouds of Allied aeroplanes were scouting this afternoon. All the German guns have been removed from Westcapelle to the Yserr and a big battle is imminent " The Allied aeroplanes have been taking advantage of the perfect spring weather and have appeared in great numbers over the Belgian coast, being fuiiously shelled by the batteries along the sea shore. Bombs were dropped on Ostend yesterday and did considerable damage to stores." A telegram received from Cettinje stated that on Wednesday three Austrian aeroplanes threw thirteen bombs on Antivari, six on Virpazar, and two on Niegushi, all without effect. For two days Austrian torpedo boats have been making sorties from the Bocche di Cattaro, cruising to San Giovanni di Medua. Regarding the air raid on Antwerp on Wednesday, the official report of which is given on page 206, the Bergen- op-Zoom correspondent of the Telegraaf reported :— " It was seven o'clock this morning that a British airman appeared above Antwerp and dropped bombs on the Cockerill Dockyards at Hoboken, where submarines are being constructed. The Germans fired their anti-aircraft guns, and one shrapnel shell fell on the Grosn Place. " The British aviator succeeded in outwitting the German aviators who rose in pursuit, and flew over Stabroeck, where the forts opened fire. He finally disappeared in the direction of Antwerp." ® ® Two pairs of Triplex safety glass goggles, the top photo' graph showing the glass intact after an accident to a flying officer at the front, to which further reference is made on this page.
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