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Updated: June 9, 2025
She was up too high, the papers stated, to be identified, but as the Swiss Government knew that none of the Allies had Zeppelins, it was suggested that a protest would soon come from Switzerland for a violation of her neutrality.
It was one of these desperate measures, like the violation of Belgian neutrality, the ruthless use of Zeppelins and the sinking of the Lusitania, which did them more harm than good. From the beginning Germany has fought with a bad conscience, prompted in all her actions more by the dread of being defeated than by the clear intention of winning the game.
A French airman wiped out a cavalry troop with a bomb, and the effect of the steel arrows used by French aviators is known to be damaging. The German bombs thrown by Zeppelins and Taube aeroplanes on Antwerp and Paris do not appear to have much disturbed either the property or equanimity of the inhabitants.
It is wholly German, in conception and development, and it is reported that the Kaiser, secretly disgusted that the Zeppelins, to the advancement of which he had given such powerful aid, should have recorded so many disasters, quietly transferred his interest to the new and simpler model.
But Tom and Jack managed to get to a height of about twenty thousand feet, which was above the Zeppelins, though by this time the Germans were in advance of them, for they had climbed at rather a steep angle. However, they knew their speed was many times that of the German machine on a straight course. On and on they went. Then came a mist which hid the enemy from sight.
They're cocksure they are going to walk through Belgium, cocksure they will get to Paris by Sedan day, and then they are going to destroy your fleet with Zeppelins and submarines and make a dash across the Channel. They say it's England they are after, in this invasion of Belgium. They'll just down France by the way. They say they've got guns to bombard Dover from Calais. They make a boast of it.
I am only surprised it did not come sooner. If any one had asked me I could have told them, three years, five years ago." The day was one of flying rumours, Germany was said to have declared war on Italy, and to have invaded Holland as well as Belgium. "They'll declare war against the moon next!" said Aunt Wilshire. "And send a lot of Zeppelins," said the smallest boy.
Experts in aëronautics attribute the disasters befalling the long series of Zeppelins, the giant German dirigibles, to this cause. "Tom, we must go down. Drop at once," he said. "That old fellow succeeded in blowing a hole in us all right." The pumps were set to work and the Wondership fell rapidly.
Unshaken by this adverse criticism, Germany rests assured that by means of its Zeppelins it will achieve that universal supremacy which it is convinced is its Destiny. This blind child-like faith has been responsible for the establishment and development of the Zeppelin factories.
"Can't see what the Germans would be flying about here for," said Jack, "and I have been trying to figure it out ever since I read that message." "So have I," declared Frank, "If they were Zeppelins I could understand it; they would be going and returning from raids on the British coast; but surely they would not venture that distance with aeroplanes." "I wouldn't think so.
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