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But the further destruction of Zeppelins has had almost as much to do with the desire for peace, in the popular mind, as the discomfort and illness caused by food shortage and the perpetual hammerings by the French and British Armies in the West. It should be realised that the Zeppelin has been a fetish of the Germans for the last ten years.
But unlike their previous custom, the Germans, during the period from February to August, 1917, used aeroplanes more frequently than Zeppelins. On February 25, 1917, British naval aeroplanes raided iron-works near Saarbrücken in Rhenish Prussia, about fifty miles beyond the border.
Also I saw half a dozen destroyers sent to the bottom and two Zeppelins shot down." "Impossible!" exclaimed the young German officer. "The official report of the battle gives our losses as two destroyers and a single cruiser, while the greater part of the British fleet was sunk." "Where is the German fleet now?" asked Frank. "Back in Heligoland. Some of the vessels are in need of slight repairs."
"I am perfectly certain that he knows nothing of the equipment of the melodramatic spy. As to Zeppelins, don't you remember he told us that he hated them and was terrified of bombs." "My dear," Philippa remonstrated, "Mr. Lessingham does nothing crude." "And yet, " Helen began. "Yet I suppose the man has something at the back of his head," Philippa interrupted.
Altogether fifty-seven people had been killed or injured in this brilliant German action. They were all civilians, and only twelve were men. Two Zeppelins had come in from over the sea, and had been fired at by an anti-aircraft gun coming on an automobile from Ipswich. The first intimation the people of the town had had of the raid was the report of this gun.
The total of lives lost and the destruction caused never will be accurately known. On April 21, 1915, came news of another trip to Warsaw by Zeppelins, a dozen persons being killed. Bombs fell in the center of the city and the post-office building was struck.
The sheds, particularly those for the Zeppelins, have been most costly, but the British have recently developed a system of mooring masts which make much of this expense unnecessary. If such a device can be successfully put into every-day use it will enormously increase the ease of loading and unloading passengers, which now makes for considerable discomfort and loss of time.
"Well," he muttered to himself, "perhaps London will believe now that we are at war!" "London, too, has its scars, and London is proud of them," a great morning paper declared the next morning. "The last and gigantic effort of German 'frightfulness' has come and passed. London was visited before dawn this morning by a fleet of sixteen Zeppelins and forty aeroplanes.
Moreover, Zeppelins can do a lot of hurt, but they can't take London; and Ostend and Antwerp are no nearer Britain for any kind of air attack than Berlin is, and above all our perspective is doubtless better than yours any one can see that to try and take towns and to fight in streets filled with civilians has not a pennyworth of military value.
With the revolver in his hand still smoking, he ran into a man whom he knew slightly at the Admiralty. "Thomson, by God!" the man exclaimed. "What are you doing with that revolver?" "I don't know," he answered. "I've just shot one of those fellows from the Zeppelin. How are things going?" "There are six Zeppelins down in different parts, and a couple of dozen aeroplanes," the other replied.
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