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A fleet of Zeppelins found, on approaching the mouth of the Thames, a very warm reception. Powerful searchlights, and shells from new anti-aircraft guns, played all round them. At length a shot got home. One of the Zeppelins, "winged" by a shell, began a wobbly retreat which ended in the waters of the estuary. The navy finished the business.
I had already opened fire and was driving straight for the boche with teeth set and my hand gripping the triggers making a veritable stream of fire spitting out of my gun at him, as I had incendiary bullets, it being my job lately to chase after observation balloons, and on Saturday morning I had also been up after the reported Zeppelins.
Then followed the series of Zeppelin raids between March 31 and April 5, 1916, when practically the entire eastern and northeastern coast of England was bombarded by the German air fleet. Even Scotland was visited by some of the Zeppelins, and there is every reason to believe that the main object of the raid was to discover the whereabouts of the main British battleship fleet.
This trio of accidents shocked the German official world to its depths and had a chilling effect upon the aerial branch of its military organization for some weeks. The Zeppelins remained at home until the return of better weather. England, for a time, was practically freed from the new menace. It was not accident alone, nor an adverse fortune, which caused the loss of the three airships.
But the Zeppelins of Billericay and Potter's Bar are heroic things. "First," they say, "you saw a little round red glow that spread. Then you saw the whole Zeppelin glowing. Oh, it was beautiful! Then it began to turn over and come down, and it flames and pieces began to break away. And then down it came, leaving flaming pieces all up the sky.
It looks as if we got here not a minute too soon." "You bet we didn't," said Carter. "Every one of those three planes is fairly loaded down with big bombs, scores of them." "To bomb New York," said Fleck soberly; "that's their plan. Zeppelins for England, big guns to shell Paris, bombs from the air for New York. It's part of their campaign to spread frightfulness, to terrorize the world.
Left him on guard with a Casablanca-like look on his face. Nov. 1. Lieut. True Born took up his quarters with us. Gave him my dressing-room for bedchamber. Was awakened several times in the night by what I took to be Zeppelins, flying low. Nov. 2. Lieut. True Born offered to bet me five pounds to twenty that the war would be over by 1922. Nov. 3. Offered to teach me auction-bridge. Nov. 4.
If women and children insist on getting in the way of bullets, so much the worse for the women and children." "How do you explain the bombardment of Antwerp by Zeppelins?" I inquired. "Zeppelins have orders to drop their bombs only on fortifications and soldiers," he answered.
Even the German prisoners are kept away from the east coast, where it is expected the Germans may eventually struggle for their landing. I have not the slightest confidence in any invasion of England by Germany, but I do not understand why German Zeppelins do not move in the darkness over the British Isles and drop a few bombs about the country at important places.
Following the destructive raids of the German naval Zeppelins over the eastern counties of England during the last days of January, 1916, there came a period of retaliation flights by Allied aviators over German cities, attacks on railway stations and munition depots, culminating in the great attack of the coast of Schleswig-Holstein by a fleet of British aeroplanes.
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