Current History: A Monthly Magazine of the New York Times, May 1918: Vol. VIII, Part I, No. 2Various
History
Current History: A Monthly Magazine of the New York Times, May 1918: Vol. VIII, Part I, No. 2
Various
World War, 1914-1918
L-13--In the shed at Hage since May, 1917.
L-14--School airship at Northolz.
L-17--Believed to have been destroyed at sea.
L-20--Dismantled.
L-21--Dismantled; believed burned at Tondern.
L-24--Dismantled.
L-26--Planned, but never constructed.
L-27, L-28, L-29, and L-30--Planned, but never constructed.
L-34--Believed destroyed off England.
L-37--Attached to Baltic squadron, but believed destroyed.
L-38--Whereabout unknown.
L-41, L-42, L-46, L-47, L-51, L-52, L-53, L-54, L-55, and L-56--In
service in the North Sea.
No information is obtainable as to the fate of the remainder of the
Zeppelins, nor as to whether their construction was ever completed, but
the few other types of dirigible airships used by the Germans have not
been better served by fate than their more renowned sisters.
The Schuette-Lanz dirigible is something like a Zeppelin, but with a
framework of bamboo instead of aluminium. There have been eight of these
in use since the beginning of the war, and their fate or present
condition is shown in the following list:
S L-3--Long since out of service.
S L-4--Struck by lightning in the Baltic.
S L-6--Believed to have fallen into the Baltic.
S L-8--In service in the Baltic.
S L-9--Burned at Stolp.
S L-14--In service in the Baltic.
S L-16--Believed to be still in service.
S L-20--In service.
There was also one Gross semi-rigid dirigible, which was put out of
service at the end of February, 1915, and three Parseval non-rigid
airships, one of which was destroyed in Russia, the second used as a
schoolship, and the third understood to be still in service.
Paris Bombarded by Long-Range Guns
The Disaster on Good Friday
Paris, though accustomed to the perils of German air raids, was amazed
on the morning of March 23, 1918, to find itself bombarded by one or
more guns of unprecedented range, which were dropping 9-inch shells into
the city and its suburbs at intervals of twenty minutes. The nearest
German line was more than sixty-two miles away, and the possibility of
artillery bombardment at such a range was at first doubted in all the
allied countries, but by the following day the fact was established that
the shells were actually coming from the region of the Forest of St.
Gobain, seven miles back of the French trenches near Laon, and about
seventy-five miles from Paris. The French artillery at the front at once
took measures to locate and destroy the guns, but without immediate
results.
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