*Destruction of Zeppelins.* Mention has already been made of the fact that practically the only use made by Germany of her huge airships has been the bombardment of open cities, and that always at night. From the first of September, 1914, up to the end of 1917, between thirty and forty had met disaster, but only two were captured intact. The first of these was discovered by a Russian cavalry patrol while at anchor and its crew of thirty men were made prisoners. This was at an early period in the war, while the second one to be captured was the L-49, already referred to, which formed one of a squadron of five evidently sent out on a bombing expedition against London. Owing to adverse winds, they never reached their destination and four of them were known to have been put out of action, all except the L-49 being destroyed in the air. Not a few of these big airships have fallen victims to their own weakness and succumbed to the elements, in one instance a high wind tearing the airship loose from its moorings while the crew was not aboard. This was at Kiel, and after traveling a number of miles unguided, the big bag fell into the North Sea. In quite a number of other cases head winds have prevented the return of the raiders to their base and they have either been destroyed by their crews or wrecked at sea in attempting to return. In still other instances the unwieldy monsters have been wrecked by high winds when attempting to land, as was so frequently the case prior to the war. _Aeroplane and Anti-Aircraft Fire Effective._ Before the war broke out the ability of either the aeroplane or the anti-aircraft gun to overcome the Zeppelin was purely theoretical, but actual experience has demonstrated that much of the theory was well founded. At least three Zeppelins have been destroyed by British aviators in mid-air, all or most of the crews being killed, while probably an equal number have been accounted for by French aviators in open battle. The war had not been under way a month before French anti-aircraft gunners showed their skill by bringing down-a "Zep," while only a week later a Russian battery accomplished the same feat, in this instance killing the entire crew. In 1916, British and French gunners succeeded in either "winging" or setting on fire three or four, while two dropped into the North Sea and one was blown up by its crew, having run out of fuel while raiding Scotch towns.