WEATHER conditions being particularly favourable, the Germans
have at last found their way to the neighbourhood of London. On
Monday night a Zeppelin scattered some ninety bombs, killing four
harmless people, injuring others and wrecking some houses. For
obvious and sound reasons that is all we are permitted to say, and
it is enough. It was a dastardly affair; the addition of another
woman and an infant to those whom the Germans have killed would not
be thought a glorious deed by any nation but theirs. We see that
they have made it a matter for rejoicing, and no one will be
astonished: it is in character with their whole conduct of the war.
Perhaps we must regard Monday's visit as only a foretaste of coming
brutality. We have been told to expect an air-assault in force,
Zeppelins with a flotilla of aeroplanes pouring down death and
destruction from the skies upon the capital city of the hated
English. If the object is to scare us, they are doomed to be
disappointed. Ours is no faint-hearted race, and we shall be
nothing daunted though they succeed in doing their very worst. It
may be, however, that the enemy knows this as well as we do, but
out of sheer malice he will inflict as much harm as it is in his
power to inflict. The result will have no military significance.
That must be sought in the operations on the sea, and in France and
Flanders.
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