Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1919 — Animals Fear Airships. [ARTICLE]

Animals Fear Airships.

All animals are terrified by airships. Partridge, quail and other game birds crouch and hide, while domestic fowl utter loud warning notes the instant they perceive the monstrous bird of prey. _ - ~ _ The Swedish aeronaut, Van Hoffken, while sailing at a moderate elevation, observed that elk. 'foxes, hares and other wild animals flecf at his approach, and that the dogs ran. howling, Into the houses. •While the Zeppelin 111 was going from Dusseldorf to Essen the aeronauts on board noted thi/t horses and cattle galloped frantically over the fields on catching sight of the airship.