Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 107, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 May 1918 — HUNS HAVE NEW AIR DEVICE [ARTICLE]

HUNS HAVE NEW AIR DEVICE

Electrically Charged Wires Hung From Captive Balloon Menace Hostile Flyers. Amsterdam. —At Zeebrugge, the German naval and aerial base on the Belgian coast, the Germans have adopted a new method of catching hostile airmen. Toward evening, the frontier correspondent of the Telegraaf reports, the Germans send up 12 captive balloons without crews and attached to electrified steel cables. The electric barrier Is said to constitute a menace to all airnjen coming into contact with It. The Germans, it is added, have also manufactured a new and improved type of airplane. It is fitted with three propellers, one being so arranged that it can keep the airplane stationary above a certain point for a few minutes, thus permitting the bombthrower to alm with greater accuracy.